Why don't you use the sleep or hibernate functions? David
On 12/31/08, Jim Dickenson <[email protected]> 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 think things there > changed much since the early W9X/NT days (it's suprising how much of > the code behind the new OS's appears to be copied from prior > versions).... > > Jim D. > > On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 7:48 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: >> 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 >> >> > > -- Sent from my mobile device David Jonsson Sweden phone callto:+46703000370
