leaking pen wrote:
> my laptop coming back from a hibernate function, 2 gigs of ram, takes
> about twice as long as the initial boot. i dont use hibernate
> anymore, i just shutdown and then restart.
Well, *when it works*, it is fast. That's my point. It seems to work okay
with Windows Vista. I
Agreed. My Compaq laptop which cost over a grand never comes back
from hib. right. Often, the keyboard does not work.
I always shutdown. Bootstrapping with XP is much quicker on that laptop.
Terry
On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 3:08 PM, leaking pen wrote:
> my laptop coming back from a hibernate fu
my laptop coming back from a hibernate function, 2 gigs of ram, takes
about twice as long as the initial boot. i dont use hibernate
anymore, i just shutdown and then restart.
and, nothing ever works right after coming back from hibernate.
Again, ive not used newer macs, but both my classic II an
On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 2:36 PM, Jed Rothwell wrote:
> Years ago, Toyota issued a recall for Prius computers that were locking up
> and crashing while the vehicle was underway at high speed.
I bet they used a word other than "crash". :-)
Happy New Year, Vorts!
Terry
Terry Blanton wrote:
> My point is that nothing happens between system clock pulses. The state of
> a computer remains unchanged. With fast and cheap NV memory, you could
> build a PC that could literally suspend its state between processor pulses
> and instantly restore the PC to the state be
My point is that nothing happens between system clock pulses. The
state of a computer remains unchanged. With fast and cheap NV memory,
you could build a PC that could literally suspend its state between
processor pulses and instantly restore the PC to the state before
suspension.
Many believe t
I wrote:
". . . whether the RAM saves its content or not, during startup it is
entirely rewritten anyway. In fact, this is exactly what happens during
recovery from sleep or hibernation: the RAM contents are loaded from the
disk. This takes practically no time."
It is the same process as a virtua
Apparently, the time a Mac takes to load depends on what it has to
load. When my iMac was new using OS10.4, it took about a minute to
load, which was immediately impressive. Now after switching to OS10.5
and adding many programs, it takes 6 minutes. As a result, I don't
start from complet
Terry Blanton wrote:
What happens during start-up of a PC?
Various things happen, such as looking around for plug-and-play components
(as Hoyt Stearns noted). You can see this happen as the CD-ROM starts up and
stops.
The important point about nonvolatile RAM is that whether the RAM saves its
c
What happens during start-up of a PC?
Terry
On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 9:47 AM, Jed Rothwell wrote:
> David Jonsson wrote:
>
>> Why don't you use the sleep or hibernate functions?
>
> It doesn't work very well. You have to clear out the RAM garbage at least
> once a day, in my experience.
>
> For
David Jonsson wrote:
Why don't you use the sleep or hibernate functions?
It doesn't work very well. You have to clear out the RAM garbage at least
once a day, in my experience.
For the same reason, the nonvolatile memory such as the Memristor will not
help PC start-up speeds much. Solid state
leaking pen wrote:
as for speed,
the intel 80286 chip, released in 1982 was 6 mhz. high end pcs these
days are 3 ghz. about 500 times faster.
It is much more than that! I measured an increase of ~500 times
between 1980 and 1995. The clock speed is not the only factor. CPUs
were converted
There is a new innovation in electronics which will renew the
computing industry:
http://www.hpl.hp.com/news/2008/apr-jun/memristor.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memristor
This two port device is "written" by a voltage and duration (fixing
its resistance) and "read" by a much lower voltage.
Why don't you use the sleep or hibernate functions?
David
On 12/31/08, Jim Dickenson wrote:
> Hi,
>
> And MS networking is still very slow if something is not out there or
> dies on the network - it sits in some sort of tight loop eating all
> the cpu cycles until a timeout occurs. I don't thin
Hi,
And MS networking is still very slow if something is not out there or
dies on the network - it sits in some sort of tight loop eating all
the cpu cycles until a timeout occurs. I don't think things there
changed much since the early W9X/NT days (it's suprising how much of
the code behind the
In reply to leaking pen's message of Tue, 30 Dec 2008 16:31:49 -0700:
Hi,
[snip]
>Its saving things, turning off individual processes that do not take
>kindly to just shutting down, and making sure the disk is no longer in
>use.
>
>as for speed,
>
>the intel 80286 chip, released in 1982 was 6 mhz.
really? i havent used the new ones, but a performa, mac II, and power
pc mac all took longer to boot up than comparable pc's that i owned at
the same time.
(and double checking with a friend with a g5, it takes 4 minutes, 25
seconds to load. My work comp, loaded with software, running xp sp 2
wi
You might be surprised to know that the Mac fast to turn off and on,
yet it is just as fast and just as advanced as the Windows machines.
The flaw is Microsoft. My iMac runs both operating systems so I can
do most of the real work using a friendly environment and switch to
Windows only whe
-
From: Jed Rothwell [mailto:jedrothw...@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2008 3:56 PM
To: vortex-L@eskimo.com
Subject: [Vo]:OFF TOPIC A prediction about future computers
It is common knowledge that in the not so distant future hard disks will
be replaced with solid state memory, and MPP a
Its saving things, turning off individual processes that do not take
kindly to just shutting down, and making sure the disk is no longer in
use.
as for speed,
the intel 80286 chip, released in 1982 was 6 mhz. high end pcs these
days are 3 ghz. about 500 times faster.
On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 3:
It is common knowledge that in the not so distant future hard disks
will be replaced with solid state memory, and MPP architecture will
become commonplace. No doubt computers will run thousands of times
faster than they do now, just as today's computers run anywhere from
1000 to 100,000 times f
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