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- From: shurr@cbnews.cb.att.com (larry.a.shurr)
- Subject: Re: Did microsoft really write an OS/2 "Terminator" crash prog?
- Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Columbus, OH
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 05:34:35 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.053435.21362@cbnews.cb.att.com>
- References: <1992Dec29.052115.27441@cbnews.cb.att.com> <1992Dec30.172609.17583@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA> <1hspsiINNc1d@cae.cad.gatech.edu>
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- In article <1hspsiINNc1d@cae.cad.gatech.edu> chris@cad.gatech.edu (Chris McClellen) writes:
- }In <1992Dec30.172609.17583@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA> bross@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA (Brian J Ross) writes:
- }>Why doesn't OS/2 (and DOS for that matter) use default configuration
- }>settings when the config.sys file is missing or is corrupted? It is...
-
- }IBM computers typically have had very LOW fault tolerance. (IBM computers
- }means minis and mainframes too).
-
- }On some of their computers, if you unplugged a device while the system was
- }running (ie, a keyboard), you would have to reboot the machine (on
- }most occasions). There was even one that would shut itself down if the
- }console was considered "damaged" -- ie, you unplugged the CRT from the wall,
- }then entire system would shut down, and you'd have lots of unhappy users.
-
- }So, I theorize, that this property of OS/2 is descendant from the mainframe
- }(or at least large-computer scale) school of thought at IBM.
-
- Is that so uncommon? I'm serious. Please don't theorize.
- Report the facts as you know them. (I'm inclined to agree
- that disconnection of a console shouldn't result in the death
- of the system, and that minimal default system, adequate for
- regenerating or restoring missing configuration files should
- come up if such files are missing or corrupt, but my opinion
- is not necessarily congruent with fact). Unix System V will
- not boot without a console and will eventually die if the
- console becomes disconnected and remains that way long enough.
- Oddly enough, System V for the AT&T 3b2 may be manually booted
- using /etc/system if both /unix and /ounix are missing or
- corrupt.
-
- Larry
- --
- Larry A. Shurr (las@cbnmva.att.com) speaking only for myself.
- Norman, listen carefully. I am lying. Are you sure your circuits are
- registering? Your ears are green. Logic is a little bird singing in a
- meadow. Logic is a wreath of pretty flowers which smell bad! - Mr. Spock
-