[SunHELP] SPARCstation 5

James Lockwood sunhelp at sunhelp.org
Sun Mar 18 13:34:14 CST 2001


On Sun, 18 Mar 2001, James Ascroft-Leigh wrote:

> I have noticed that it seems to be quite advanced for it's age with things
> like an optical mouse and power on from the keyboard.  I was just wondering
> whether it would be possible - even if really difficult - to cause it to
> power up from a signal to it's Ethernet port.  i.e.  It is off and I tell it
> to turn on from another computer that it is networked to.  Is there any
> chance?

No.  Then again, why would you ever want to turn it off?

If you think the SS5 was advanced, you should have seen a 3/60 back in
1987.  Huge power, tiny package, tiny price.  I still miss mine every now
and then (though the 3/410 I upgraded to squashed it CPU-wise).

-James




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