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From: hpeyerl@fsa.ca (Herb Peyerl)
Subject: Re: Better to start with: NETBSD-0.9 or BSD386?????
Message-ID: <1993Aug26.163520.8561@fsa.ca>
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References: <255air$1c4@cleese.apana.org.au>> <CGD.93Aug22193504@erewhon.CS.Berkeley.EDU> <25eps2INNrfk@kralizec.zeta.org.au>
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1993 16:35:20 GMT
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In article <25eps2INNrfk@kralizec.zeta.org.au> bde@kralizec.zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans) writes:
>In <CGD.93Aug22193504@erewhon.CS.Berkeley.EDU> cgd@erewhon.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Chris G. Demetriou) writes:
>
>>actually, from my point of view, i see it as:
>
>>why put your system into a state where some weenie can walk
>>up to it and reboot it to try to get to a DOS prompt, etc.
>
>To stop them from hitting the reset button, or worse, the power switch.
The end result being the same in both cases...
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