Power-off trivia

Lennart Sorensen lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org
Tue Aug 9 16:35:50 UTC 2005


On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 12:10:48PM -0400, phil wrote:
> (Not that it was a show-stopper, but it has always bugged me that 
> Windows NT refused to turn off the computer when told to shut down.  
> With Mac experience, I had assumed it was a hardware limitation until I 
> set up the Linux partition a few years ago and discovered that shutdown 
> could actually mean what it said!)

IBM had a driver for NT to enable poweroff on shutdown.  I used to load
that on IBM M Pro workstations.  Worked fine.

Lennart Sorensen
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