From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,8893269a4640c798 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-07-29 10:19:14 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!sn-xit-02!sn-xit-06!sn-xit-09!supernews.com!64.152.100.70.MISMATCH!sjc70.webusenet.com!news.webusenet.com!nf3.bellglobal.com!nf1.bellglobal.com!nf2.bellglobal.com!news20.bellglobal.com.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: terminate applications References: <3F1D2FDC.1070402@noplace.com> <3F1DC75A.5050300@noplace.com> <87oezm9lar.fsf@inf.enst.fr> <3F1E7E1E.8090302@noplace.com> <3F264F9D.7000308@noplace.com> <1059486423.501229@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> In-Reply-To: <1059486423.501229@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <0OxVa.1300$j_5.4660@news20.bellglobal.com> Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 13:04:03 -0400 NNTP-Posting-Host: 198.96.223.163 X-Complaints-To: abuse@sympatico.ca X-Trace: news20.bellglobal.com 1059498236 198.96.223.163 (Tue, 29 Jul 2003 13:03:56 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 13:03:56 EDT Organization: Bell Sympatico Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:40956 Date: 2003-07-29T13:04:03-04:00 List-Id: Hyman Rosen wrote: > Marin David Condic wrote: > >> You can't hide the OS calls. People *will* use them. If you don't give >> the developers a common interface to them, they just do an end-run >> around you and then curse your name for making it difficult for them. > > > This might be a good time to send people over to check out > . Start up the simulator, > and look on the lower left, where you will find the big red > "PULL FOR EMERGENCY" button. The IBM-1130 that I spent 4 years on, had a big Red emergency pull button. There was many a night were curiosity brought me close to trying it but besides pulling the power, I was not sure of its precise "semantics" ;-) I was always afraid that a service call might be required as follow up, so I refrained from discovering those semantics. -- Warren W. Gay VE3WWG http://home.cogeco.ca/~ve3wwg