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

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From: Bryan Wu
Date: Fri, 04 Aug 1995 05:10

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In <ROOT.95Jul30180919@cepheus.omicron.se> root@cepheus.omicron.se (Superuser) writes:
>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.

Same thing witht he mac - the 'power' button on the keyboard is soft 
power on and off.

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From: bwu@panix.com (Bryan Wu)
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: 4 Aug 1995 01:10:04 -0400
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