On Mar 6, 3:22 pm, "Ville M. Vainio" <[email protected]> wrote:
> I think computers will evolve to the direction of mobile phones. Thanks for these comments. > 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.' Yes. This was my general thought. Googling "boot times" brings up some interesting discussions. Such as: http://www.itwire.com/content/view/22671/1154/ http://blogs.msdn.com/e7/archive/2008/08/29/boot-performance.aspx Edward --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
