On Thu, 1 Aug 2002, Helmar Rudolph wrote: > On a remotely related note, in GEOS you could shut down the > system at any time. It would then reboot the next with WITH > your applications open AND the documents you were working on! > And as the GEOS "auto-save" default is set to 1min, even in > case of a complete system crash you would lose less than > 1min's work. This is something I'd like to see on BeOS too, > because if it's aimed at the desktop, it has to be > newbie-proof, so even if they just shut down the system the > hard way, it should restart just where they left/shut-it off. > > Any comments? Yes. You have a faulty application (or a malicious application) that will crash/shutdown your system when you run it. The system restarts, the app is started again. Another crash/shutdown... You get the idea. -Bruno