Hi,

on 13 Apr 1999 17:26:52 -0400 matt debergalis wrote 
concerning "powering down a NeXT machine" something like this:

> is anyone familiar with the NeXT rom monitor?  to power down from the
> rom monitor, you're supposed to hit the power key.  if i'm using the
> monitor over a serial line, however, that doesn't work, because there is
> no power key!

> anyone know of another way to request a powerdown?  i suppose i could
> look for the ROM address to jump to and manually set the PC to that, but
> i'm hoping for something a bit cleaner (and easier).

IIRC there isn't anything else you can do from the monitor. However, it's
almost 3 years (I think) since I've tried to decompile that code. There is
no such thing as the power-off command in the sun prom. Of course
you can always boot NextStep and do a halt -p. ;)

My guess would be that powering off doesn't involve much more than switching
a bit in some register, but I haven't looked at that code, yet.

Rolf