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. high end pcs these >days are 3 ghz. about 500 times faster.
I don't think the increase in memory speed (let alone disk speed) has been anywhere near as dramatic, hence the "real" speed increase is probably considerably less. Regards, Robin van Spaandonk http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/Project.html
