Re: BESM-6; hyphenation

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From: James THIELE
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 1990 15:35

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In article <22...@opus.cs.mcgill.ca> pet...@opus.cs.mcgill.ca (Peter Deutsch) writes:
|In article <900919072...@lilac.berkeley.edu>, DLV@CUNYVMS1.BITNET writes:
|> >       Talking about how-to-turn-off-machine I forgot to say
|> >       that BESM has a software feature to block power turnoff
|> >       (I think it's a quite valuable idea, especially for Unix
|> >       machines; what's about self-turning-on machines? ;-).
|> 
|> i have seen such a unix machine---the off switch just started a software
|> routine that does synch and then turns off the power via software.

First generation Apollo workstations did that in 1981.

James Thiele -- microsoft!jamesth

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From: jamesth@microsoft.UUCP (James THIELE)
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Subject: Re: BESM-6; hyphenation
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Date: 20 Sep 90 15:35:44 GMT
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