On Jul 16, 2005, at 11:03, Bill Vermillion wrote:

Actually I saw that documented a very very long time ago in
an Intel Unix manual.

It's present in more recent documentation. :)

The sync utility can be called to ensure that all disk writes have been completed before the processor is halted in a way not suitably done by
     reboot(8) or halt(8).

    http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=sync&sektion=8

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