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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