On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 9:31 PM, Edward K. Ream <[email protected]> wrote:
> Windows 7 will have built-in support for touch screens. Why not > support non-volatile "startup" memory? My guess is that far more > people would be interested in "instant on" than in touch screens. > > Actually, a startup memory would practically erase the boundary > between on, off and sleeping. Shutdown/restart could be relegated to > recovering from serious error. > > I would like to see this project move forward. Any ideas? Yes :-). I think computers will evolve to the direction of mobile phones. The memory can easily be kept alive with very little power, and flash hard drives don't need to be "spinned" up when the machine is activated again. A phone can operate so that there is an OS kernel running all the time (even when the machine is "off"). If you turn off all the wildly polling processes, the machine needs to wake up quite rarely - this consumes very little power when it's not needed. Today's netbooks don't really consume many watts, and who's to say this low power operation will remain the domain of netbooks? Most people would make do with a very low spec computer, perhaps something equipped with an arm processor for extra saving. Hibernating to hard drive "works" on computers these days, but my understanding is that it has always been badly implemented. -- Ville M. Vainio http://tinyurl.com/vainio --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leo-editor" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/leo-editor?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
