Re: Truly rebooting an Apple IIGS

["Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com>]

mdj wrote:
> Linards Ticmanis wrote:
>
> > Lyrical Nanoha wrote:
> >
> >
> > > Hold down the Command (Open Apple) key while pressing the same keys.
> >
> > Right, and the important thing here is that Open Apple is being held
> > down while Reset is *released*. At least on the IIe, I don't own a IIgs.
>
>
> Each of the three machine designs (IIe, IIc, IIgs) that have this
> feature all implement it slightly differently, and are sensitive to
> different variations.
>
> The official, sactioned, 'three-finger salute' is to hold down both
> control and open apple, then press and release reset. Once you see the
> machine rebooting, you can release the modifier keys.

The only time that a //e will look at the modifier key is *after* the
reset ends, which is after either Ctrl or Reset is released.

I would expect this to be true even with keyboard buffering, since a
reset should empty the buffer, too.

-michael

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