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Article #958Re: MS DOS crashes on random keyboard input
From: Bill Crews
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 1986 18:01
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 1986 18:01
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> If I set my 9 month old in front of an IBM PC or an AT&T 6300
> and let him pound on the keyboard, in short order he manages
> to crash the machine. (Often the screen goes blank, and much
> of the time CTRL ALT DEL won't reboot, I have to do a hard reset.)
Try doing the same thing at a shell prompt on a Unix terminal, and be sure
to include the Ctrl and Esc keys. For that matter, try the same thing on
a 3270 attached to a 370, and include the Sys Req key. I imagine it is
possible to insulate the terminal/PC availablility from hostile attack,
but probably not without significant reduction in usability.
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