On 20 Mar 98 at 16:34, Drew Dunn wrote:

> An interesting thing about this is that in the early versions of "soft
> power", there was no way for the computer to turn back on by itself in
> the event of a power failure.  Once the power went off, the computer was
> off until the power came back on.

  That's "until the power supply was disconnected from the
motherboard and reconnected".  Restoration of external power was
necessary in any case, but not sufficient.

> Most of the BIOS manufacturers came up with a fix after the
> computer makers logged thousands of complaints about it.

  Last fall, we built about 110 rack-mounted servers with
dual-PII-266 440FX motherboards in them.  The AiR boards had this
fix; the Tyan boards did not, and Tyan seemed surprised but
unconcerned when we reported the problem to them (twice).
  Of course both have introduced 440LX boards since then, so it's
probably no longer an issue.

David G