Assignment V equality

[Scott Stevens]

On Thu, 18 Aug 2005 06:00:54 -0400
shoppa_classiccmp at trailing-edge.com (Tim Shoppa) wrote:

> > Hang on a minute, does anyone *really* find the use of "=" as
> > assignation, and "="
> > as equivalence, in *any way* confusing?
> 
> No, but I have extreme difficulties that on some machines you
> have to click "Start" to stop, and you have to click on "my computer"
> even though it's not my computer.
> 
> Tim.

You click 'start' to start the shutdown sequence.

Pressing a button to 'stop' the computer is the old way, on
non-multitasking computers.  It wrecks havoc on filesystems, data
structures, etc.