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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!saimiri.primate.wisc.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!darwin.sura.net!paladin.american.edu!news.univie.ac.at!fstgds15.tu-graz.ac.at!fstgds01.tu-graz.ac.at!not-for-mail From: chmr@edvz.tu-graz.ac.at (Christoph Robitschko) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Subject: Re: my bug list Date: 30 Mar 1993 22:55:58 +0200 Organization: Technical University of Graz, Austria Lines: 17 Message-ID: <1pac4uINNqi0@fstgds01.tu-graz.ac.at> References: <1p9rg8$1dvg@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: fstgds01.tu-graz.ac.at X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL7] In article <1p9rg8$1dvg@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu> Charles Hannum (mycroft@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu) wrote: -> -> In article <CGD.93Mar30021341@erewhon.CS.Berkeley.EDU> -> cgd@erewhon.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Chris G. Demetriou) writes: -> > -> > i've yet to understand why 386bsd doesn't use the standard -> > keyboard-controller method of resetting the CPU. -> -> Doesn't work on my HP Vectra. (Of course, neither does the method -> that's currently used. Ctrl-Alt-Del from DOS works just dandy, -> though.) -> How about giving the reset command to the keyboard controller, waiting for half a second, and if the computer is not reset by then, unmap all memory space. Could this break anything ? Christoph