What happens during start-up of a PC? Terry
On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 9:47 AM, Jed Rothwell <[email protected]> wrote: > David Jonsson <[email protected]> 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 disks do not help much either, > surprisingly, from the benchmarks I have seen. > > Nonvolatile memory will help with other devices that do not have to be reset > and reloaded as frequently. Nonvolatile core memory was used in central > telephone exchanges until the late 1970s because it did not have to be > reloaded after power failures. > > - Jed > >
