On Thu, 20 Jul 2000, Andrew Reilly wrote:
> (Regarding serial consoles: I knew a microvax once that had a
> paper teletype as it's console. I discovered, to my chagrin,
> that turning the thing off (and so killing DTR, I suppose)
> immediately shut the vax down.)
Those were the days! Also if you hit the break key on the thing it would
halt the machine. You could get it to continue or reboot it. The number of
times I saw some idiot hit the break key on the console trying to stop a
process, then power cycle the machine because it had mysteriously stopped.
Any some people wonder why you put locks on doors that lead to server
rooms.
Rodos
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