Re: floppy eject buttons [was: What's a Real Computer?]

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From: Joe Sloan
Date: Wed, 02 Aug 1995 18:47

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In article <ROOT.95Jul30180919@cepheus.omicron.se>,
Superuser <root@cepheus.omicron.se> wrote:
>In article <3up7gl$iqk@ixnews7.ix.netcom.com> laureate@ix.netcom.com (Hungs) writes:
>
>> I think it would be pretty neat if a computer could turn itself off. 
>> Maybe just have a button that turns it off.  I don't know how you could
>> do this though.
>
>The HP9000's do exactly that. If you press the power button it first does a
>shutdown of HP/UX, and then turns its own ower off.

SGIs do the same thing when you press the "power" button...

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 Joe Sloan     jjs@engr.ucr.edu   http://dostoevsky.ucr.edu
     Win95? No, none for me, thanks - I'm already running Linux...
 Microsoft is not the answer - Microsoft is the question; the answer is NO!

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From: jjs@dostoevsky.ucr.edu (Joe Sloan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.intel
Subject: Re: floppy eject buttons [was: What's a Real Computer?]
Date: 2 Aug 1995 18:47:42 GMT
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