I crashed Linux

[warlord at MIT.EDU (Derek Atkins)]

John Chambers <jc at trillian.mit.edu> writes:

> Too bad the keyboard and mouse cables never have those little  screws
> like  the  monitor  has  that  prevents fallout.  Of course, the real
> idiocy here is that plugging the mouse back in didn't make  it  start
> working again. I'd guess that's probably a hardward idiocy, though it
> is probably exacerbated by some matching software idiocy.

This is a design flaw of the PC Architecture.  Other architectures
have similar idiocies.  For example, on the Sun/Sparc architecture, if
you unplug and then re-plug the keyboard into the CPU, the system will
halt into the boot prom monitor, and you have to type "ok<return>" to
get the system to continue running.

-derek

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