Hi! > The claim is always made that if computers didn't need to refresh > their memory, they wold be magnitudes faster.
Nope... There once was a tool for relatively old PCs which reduced refresh frequency a lot and still only gave you far less than 10 percent of extra RAM speed. > You could of course implement some sort of a sleep mode > (I.E. dump the contents of memory to a flash drive or > nvram or something) I have a compactflash (can be used as IDE disk with a simple mechanical adapter, no extra controller chips in there) with lifetime (in Germany: 30 years) warranty and quite acceptable access speed in the 10s of megabytes per second, maybe I can use that for swapfiles in Linux, now that you say it :-). Downside: Harddisk is even faster, so CF swap means slower entering of hibernate mode and also a bit slower wakeup. The hibernate mode (suspend to disk) of Linux also uses the swap. Note that hibernate in DOS makes little sense: It boot in seconds anyway, faster than the power on self test of some mainboard BIOSes after all ;-). Eric ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Create and Deploy Rich Internet Apps outside the browser with Adobe(R)AIR(TM) software. With Adobe AIR, Ajax developers can use existing skills and code to build responsive, highly engaging applications that combine the power of local resources and data with the reach of the web. Download the Adobe AIR SDK and Ajax docs to start building applications today-http://p.sf.net/sfu/adobe-com _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
