Vickie Timms --> Atkins Library> UNC Charlotte asked:
 
>> When I first started working with the hp3000's, I was told to never power
>> off the console.  'They' said if the messages could not display on the
>> screen, they would fill up the buffer and eventually bring the system
down.
>> Being the good girl that I am...I never tested to see if this was
correct.
>> #1 Is this correct information
>> #2 does it still apply?
 
And John Beckett <[log in to unmask]> replied:
 
>Executive summary: Yes to #1, No to #2.
>
>This was the case with classic and baroque HP 3000's, if the console was
>configured for termtype 10.  The HP 3000 would send out messages, they
>wouldn't get out because nobody was giving control-F's to tell the CPU
>that the terminal was ready for more.
>
>I doubt that it still applies, but it could easily depend on your
>configuration.  For all I know, HP may have learned how to use that
>infamous DTR line.  Or some of their new terminals may, when being
>powered off, send a control-S so they wouldn't lose anything while off. :-)
 
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I've found that if the console on my 957 is disconnected/shut off long
enough then it takes a real looonnnng time for user's logons to complete.
 
 -- Evan