In message <200106091958.f59Jw6n29198@night-porter.duskware.de>, Martin Huseman
n writes:

>
>Actually, on modern PCs, pressing the power button should do the same - via
>some ACPI magick in the kernel.
>

Yah -- occasionally, my (1.5.1b2) laptop hangs in a way that the power 
button is inoperative.  But if I hold it down for ~5 seconds, it acts 
as a RESET button...

		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb