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Article #369Re: floppy eject buttons [was: What's a Real Computer?]
From: Hungs
Date: Wed, 02 Aug 1995 22:09
Date: Wed, 02 Aug 1995 22:09
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In <3voh8e$6gt@galaxy.ucr.edu> jjs@dostoevsky.ucr.edu (Joe Sloan) writes: > >In article <ROOT.95Jul30180919@cepheus.omicron.se>, >Superuser <root@cepheus.omicron.se> wrote: >>In article <3up7gl$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... > >-- > Joe Sloan jjs@engr.ucr.edu http://dostoevsky.ucr.edu all computers do. but I meant a software button not a hardware button. Like a button in a running program that says shutdown on it....
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!ix.netcom.com!netnews From: laureate@ix.netcom.com (Hungs) 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 22:09:47 GMT Organization: Netcom Distribution: world Message-ID: <3vot3b$6i8@ixnews2.ix.netcom.com> References: <davidf-1407950303390001@umslts1_14.umsl.edu> <rmcassid-2107950931300001@dante.eng.uci.edu> <3up7gl$iqk@ixnews7.ix.netcom.com> <ROOT.95Jul30180919@cepheus.omicron.se> <3voh8e$6gt@galaxy.ucr.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: ix-or11-26.ix.netcom.com