Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1998 22:03:48 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: imp@village.org (Warner Losh) Cc: mike@smith.net.au, y-nakaga@nwsl.mesh.ad.jp, mark@grondar.za, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PAO Integration? Message-ID: <199812132203.PAA09407@usr09.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <199812110109.SAA65255@harmony.village.org> from "Warner Losh" at Dec 10, 98 06:09:50 pm
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> : > > shutdown -h. What is wrong with this? > : > > : > It is wrong. > > Why? Traditionally Unix hasn't run on hardware that has software > power off. Who can say what traditional unix is when the hardware has > a new feature? The AT&T 3B2 I uses to use had soft power-off... to get UNIX hardware old than that, you'd need to use a VAX. The VAX at the Univeristy of Utah at the time I was there could switch off its UPS; it didn't normally do this, of course, but the possibility was there. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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