Thus spake Todd Whitesel
> Hardware can get "soft-wedged" such that a flip-off-flip-on power-cycle
> does not reset everything that needs to be reset.

Also, while hardware is getting more resilient, it's probably not all
that good to do a flipoffflipon type reset.  I still give it a good
3 or 4 seconds myself.

Mind you my first computer (Altair) would actually blow boards if you
didn't leave it off for 20 or 30 seconds (Actually I never turned it
back on until the fan came to a complete stop which took about that long)
so 3 or 4 almost feels like a flipoffflipon to me.  :-)

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