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From: eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: startup preferences
Message-ID: <1621@toaster.SFSU.EDU>
Date: 25 May 91 03:50:45 GMT
References: <1770@vtserf.cc.vt.edu>
Reply-To: eps@cs.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
Organization: San Francisco State University
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In article <1770@vtserf.cc.vt.edu> rcw@GroupW.cns.vt.edu (Craig Woods) writes:
>I have received two NeXTstations with 400 M drives and 8MB RAM.
>One arrived in April, one yestereday.  I'm curious why one machine
>has in the Preferences Panel (startup preferences) the options that
>allow the computer to be turned on at a specified time.  The machine
>that was received in April does not have those options.

Simple.  NeXT is continually improving their products.
Unfortunately, there's no retrofit for the older machine, since
the change is to a surface-mount component--you'd need a new
motherboard.  The software detects which hardware is available
and adjusts accordingly.

					-=EPS=-