Forgot to add that it's mainly useful in server-type environments where you want it to reboot automatically after a power outage (this was before smarter ATX-like power supplies and computers (Mac and PC alike) could do this via software).
I don't know this, but can the early Power Macs do this via software? I know later ones can (the feature was certainly around by the time the G3-based Power Macs came about). I'm talking desktops here; PowerBooks probably had the feature a bit earlier (very early on, most kinds of more advanced power management, such as the Sleep command, were pretty much exclusive to the PowerBooks).
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