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- From: pshuang@zurich.ai.mit.edu (Ping Huang)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
- Subject: Re: way to power off my PC.
- Date: 5 Nov 92 19:40:14
- Organization: M.I.T. Artificial Intelligence Lab.
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- Message-ID: <PSHUANG.92Nov5194014@freeside.ai.mit.edu>
- References: <1992Nov4.221748.29322@cdf.toronto.edu>
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- In-reply-to: a1001032@cdf.toronto.edu's message of Wed, 4 Nov 1992 22:17:48 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov4.221748.29322@cdf.toronto.edu> a1001032@cdf.toronto.edu (Fiona Wong) writes:
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- > A crazy question. Can I power off my PC automatically using C
- > or assembly programs? :-) Assume any hardware necessary is available..
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- While the standard PC architecture does not provide a way for it to
- power itself off (unlike many Macintosh models, where choosing
- "Shutdown" from the Finder will power the machine off), if customized
- hardware is available, it should be easy to make this work. Basic TLL
- logic should be able to detect when the data lines on the printer port
- are raised, so you only need to write a program to output data to the
- printer port and the customized hardware can kill the power.
-
- --
- | Ping Huang (INTERNET: pshuang@martigny.ai.mit.edu) speaking for himself.
- | "One Thing to name them all, One Thing to define them,
- | One Thing to place them in environments and bind them..."
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