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In article <1992Sep8.105655.712@macc.wisc.edu> anderson@macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson) writes:
>
>Color me clueless if you like, but hearing this two times in
>quick succession prompts me to ask what is so all-fired
>awful about rebooting a computer?  Sure, with a large lab, a
>complex network, or many users all engaged in important
>mission-critical tasks :-), there are obvious reasons why it
>could inconvenience people.  (Try waiting out the four hours
>it takes to bring up a large Vax cluster from backup tapes.)
>
>Neither above poster reveals their standaloneness, but

This is a good point.  I run a standalone system and find jumping to the
monitor and rebooting to be very quick.  I have done this to restore
swap space.  I also use it to turn my scanner, which I do not need most
of the time, on and off.

This is probably obvious to a lot of NeXT users, but on my office
system, rebooting forces a full fsck every time while the NeXT checks
for a normal shutdown and skips fsck, or seems to.  Consequently, a
reboot is really quick.  It took me a year to discover this on my own.
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