From: "John P. Linderman" <jpl.jpl@gmail.com>
To: William Corcoran <wlc@jctaylor.com>
Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] ATT Hardware
Date: Sun, 1 Jul 2018 20:55:11 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAC0cEp8FtKQor1-Xrd35JiDbPFvsQ1fTwft94ds2DV0nhfr7gg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <927BB205-49F8-492B-8AAB-0395F36B549A@jctaylor.com>
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So prohibiting someone from pushing a button differed in what way from
allowing them to pull a plug? I can understand there may have been some
difference in state when/if the machine was rebooted. If I just wanted the
machine to cease sucking power, what's the difference? I never wanted that
box to exist, or come back to life, in whatever color.
On Sun, Jul 1, 2018 at 8:20 PM, William Corcoran <wlc@jctaylor.com> wrote:
> No! no! no! The 3b2 was one of the first supermicros to fully integrate
> power management with the system. Yanking the cord would be unthinkable
> mainly because it was unnecessary. The shutdown script would remove power
> to the the system once the system safely went down and buffers were
> flushed. You could also depress this massive rocket switch on the side of
> the unit and it would kick off the powerdown script. It is noteworthy that
> the 3b2 power switch was stateless...allowing human and computer to turn
> off the power.
>
> Finally, the 3b2 is probably the only system in the world with system
> diagnostics so in depth that they were nearly as significant as the
> operating system. It’s a telecommunications thing. Interestingly, the
> color of the 3b2 was similar to a VAX Brown and White.
>
>
> On Jul 1, 2018, at 6:24 PM, John P. Linderman <jpl.jpl@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Puns aside, anyone who didn't consider pulling the plug was probably not
> someone who should be bringing the system down.
>
> On Sat, Jun 30, 2018 at 10:17 PM, Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
> wrote:
>
>> On Saturday, 30 June 2018 at 7:15:07 -0400, Norman Wilson wrote:
>> > Ron Natalie:
>> >
>> > My favorite 3B2ism was that the power switch was soft (uncommon then,
>> not so
>> > much now). I seem to recall that if the logged in user wasn't in a
>> > particular group, pushing the power button was a no-op. You didn't
>> have
>> > sufficient privs to operate the power.
>> >
>> > ====
>> >
>> > Surely you mean the current user didn't have sufficent power.
>>
>> Or was experiencing too much resistance?
>>
>> Greg
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Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-06-30 11:15 Norman Wilson
2018-07-01 2:17 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2018-07-01 20:14 ` John P. Linderman
2018-07-02 0:20 ` William Corcoran
2018-07-02 0:55 ` John P. Linderman [this message]
2018-07-02 3:59 ` William Corcoran
2018-07-02 10:13 ` Kevin Bowling
2018-07-03 1:02 ` Dave Horsfall
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2018-06-29 13:16 ron
2018-06-29 14:55 ` John P. Linderman
2018-06-29 15:07 ` Clem Cole
2018-06-29 16:31 ` ron
2018-06-29 17:51 ` Seth J. Morabito
2018-06-29 15:26 ` Seth J. Morabito
2018-06-29 16:29 ` ron
2018-06-29 18:48 ` Perry E. Metzger
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