26 Apr
2001
26 Apr
'01
1:37 p.m.
On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, Tony Duell wrote:
A number of workstations I have here do much the same
thing. You shut
them down (either by typing a command or pressing a physical switch),
they sync the filesystems, etc and then turn off their own power.
The PERQ 1 (and 1a), PERQ 3a, Whitechapel MG1, Torch XXX and XXXX, etc
all did this.
Of course, if the PERQs were running PNX, didn't doing this usually
necessitate an fsck? I don't recall PNX being very forgiving when the
system wasn't shutdown properly.
For those not familiar with PNX, it's basically 7th Edition UNIX with
some System III additions and some PERQ hardware specific features.
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