Rick Kelly wrote: >The main reason for sync;sync;sync on V7 UNIX was because you couldn't >do a shutdown, only a halt to the hardware monitor, on the PDP11. You >can verify that behavior with SIMH. :-)
Uhm.. that's the same on the VAX.. in what way would that preclude a shutdown? NetBSD certainly shuts down on VAX (and drops into the monitor when it's done.) mkb. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
