[geeks] UPSs

[Jonathan C. Patschke]

On Tue, 7 May 2002, Bill Bradford wrote:

> Sometimes hard to do an orderly shutdown when you cant see what you're
> doing.

I thought every soft-power SPARC, SGI, PC, and Macintosh "did the right
thing"[1] when you pushed the power button (or power key, for the Mac). My
U10, PC, Octane, and PowerMac/7300 all do.  Granted, if you've got older
equipment, you might want to keep the tube alive for a few seconds so that
you can power it off manually, but this doesn't seem like much of a
concern for newer stuff.

--Jonathan