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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!news.smith.edu!sophia.smith.edu!jfieber From: jfieber@sophia.smith.edu (J Fieber) Subject: Re: Better to start with: NETBSD-0.9 or BSD386????? Message-ID: <1993Aug27.213829.5235@sophia.smith.edu> Sender: root@sophia.smith.edu (Operator) Organization: Smith College References: <CGD.93Aug22193504@erewhon.CS.Berkeley.EDU> <25eps2INNrfk@kralizec.zeta.org.au> <1993Aug26.163520.8561@fsa.ca> Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1993 21:38:29 GMT Lines: 23 In article <1993Aug26.163520.8561@fsa.ca> hpeyerl@fsa.ca (Herb Peyerl) writes: >In article <25eps2INNrfk@kralizec.zeta.org.au> bde@kralizec.zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans) writes: >>In <CGD.93Aug22193504@erewhon.CS.Berkeley.EDU> cgd@erewhon.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Chris G. Demetriou) writes: >> >>>actually, from my point of view, i see it as: >> >>>why put your system into a state where some weenie can walk >>>up to it and reboot it to try to get to a DOS prompt, etc. >> >>To stop them from hitting the reset button, or worse, the power switch. > >The end result being the same in both cases... Maybe not. If they hit the power switch instead of the reset button, you have a small chance of being around when it boots back up. If something goes haywire during reboot after hitting the reset button, who knows what destruction the uneducated human intervention may do... -john -- === jfieber@sophia.smith.edu ================================================ === 42 19 30 N 72 38 30 W ========== Come up and be a kite! --K. Bush ===