[P1] Does the Clock Sleep?

[Steve]

On Thursday, July 10, 2003, at 01:09 AM, Tom R. no spam wrote:
> And can an iBook--or OSX in general?--really do things while
> *sleeping*?  Cf unix cron jobs run while the computer is on and 
> running,

  Well...it can do SOMETHING....but I don't about anything too useful...

  It can wake itself up.... it can wake up for network activity....not 
sure if it will wake for incoming phone calls.

  But it can even turn itself on!  Earlier OS's could do this and it has 
been touted at something coming in Panther. There are even apps that 
will add this to Jaguar.

  It was once explained to me that even the power switch was software 
controlled on Macs, so there is some sort of functioning going on even 
at the lowest levels.

  The question is how much, and can it be accessed?

Steve