jkight@is-next.umd.edu (Jeff Kight) (04/19/91)
Well, noone seems to have addressed this problem, so here goes... A few days back, I upgraded my home machine and all the 2.0 NeXTs at AU to 2.1 Great! It even fixed my UUCP sendmail problem from home (although it still has problems when I send NeXTmail) Anyhow...my Color NeXTstation arrives (@ 2 weeks after ordering !Thanx NeXT!) and while demo-ing the Preferences, I notice that there is a pop-up menu under the boot choices that allow you to have the Color-station to turn itself back on after power-off/down/failure or on a specific date/time. GREAT!! That was always one of my biggest problems!! So I check out my other 030 cubes...no popup menu... I go home and check out my NeXTstation...and Preferences won't open up... (temporarily running off of the 105 dist since my ext is being fixed) So...is this something special for the Color machine, 040's with full dist, or what? --- Jeff Kight jkight@auvm.auvm.edu University Computing Center jkight@auvm.bitnet The American University (202) 885-2281 Washington DC 20016-8019
jfreem@uncecs.edu (Joe Freeman) (04/21/91)
In article <91109.090635JKIGHT@auvm.auvm.edu> JKIGHT@auvm.auvm.edu (Jeff Kight) writes: >still has problems when I send NeXTmail) > >Anyhow...my Color NeXTstation arrives (@ 2 weeks after ordering !Thanx NeXT!) >and while demo-ing the Preferences, I notice that there is a pop-up menu >under the boot choices that allow you to have the Color-station to turn >itself back on after power-off/down/failure or on a specific date/time. > >GREAT!! That was always one of my biggest problems!! So I check out my other >030 cubes...no popup menu... > >I go home and check out my NeXTstation...and Preferences won't open up... >(temporarily running off of the 105 dist since my ext is being fixed) > The NeXTStation Color machines have a new alarm clock chip. It allows you to set the wake up time of a machine. 030 machines and Next stations do not have this part on board. I don't know if and when that part will be added to NeXT stations (mono). -- Joe Freeman jfreem@uncecs.edu The opinions espressed here are my own and are not shared by my employer or anyone else I know of. Flames can be mailed to me or routed to /dev/null.
lee@pipe.cs.wisc.edu (Soo Lee) (04/22/91)
From: jfreem@uncecs.edu (Joe Freeman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: Power Up, Preferences and 2.1 Summary: NSCs can and NS can't Message-ID: Date: 21 Apr 91 13:15:11 GMT References: Organization: UNC Educational Computing Service Lines: 26 In article <91109.090635JKIGHT@auvm.auvm.edu> <1991Apr21.131511.28471@uncecs.edu> (Joe Freeman) writes: >The NeXTStation Color machines have a new alarm clock chip. It allows >you to set the wake up time of a machine. 030 machines and Next stations >do not have this part on board. I don't know if and when that part will >be added to NeXT stations (mono). >Joe Freeman jfreem@uncecs.edu Is this true to new 040 cube too? Thanks in advance. Soo Y. Lee lee@cs.wisc.edu
eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott) (04/23/91)
In article <1991Apr21.131511.28471@uncecs.edu> jfreem@uncecs.edu (Joe Freeman) writes: >The NeXTStation Color machines have a new alarm clock chip. It allows >you to set the wake up time of a machine. 030 machines and Next stations >do not have this part on board. I don't know if and when that part will >be added to NeXT stations (mono). Don't expect to see a retrofit... it's a surface-mount component, so we're talking motherboard swap here. It's a real screw for our servers too... -=EPS=-
crum@fcom.cc.utah.edu (Gary Crum) (04/24/91)
In article <1991Apr21.131511.28471@uncecs.edu> jfreem@uncecs.edu (Joe Freeman) writes: >The NeXTStation Color machines have a new alarm clock chip. It allows Aha! And, the '040 CPUs in NeXTstation color systems use RAM memory that is different from that used by other NeXT '040 systems -- the same kind of memory that the NeXTdimension requires to go with its i860. (Does anyone know of 3rd-party sources for 4M SIMMs of this special type? It's not the same type of SIMMS that Mac IIfx systems require, is it?) It sounds like the NeXTstation Color is currently the best NeXT computer to use as a "server", although machines from other vendors can of course be used as disk (NFS) servers. (There are problems with NFS between NeXT and SiliconGraphics systems, however, as of NeXT 2.0 and IRIX 3.3 anyway.) No wonder it is rumored that the price of the NeXTstation Color (N1200) will be increasing $1000 (list) on 10-May. Has anyone seen non-graphics performance comparisons of NeXTstation Color systems with other NeXT '040 computers? Maybe the next batch of product announcements will rectify this anomaly. Gary