On 18-Feb-00 Miles Nordin wrote:
>  1.  Sleep on these machines is a joke.  AFAICT it uses almost as much
>      power as simply being 'on'.  The hibernation/``save'' feature is the
>      only one that's useful in practice.  And, for safety, the OS invoked 
>      the ``save'' dump-to-disk routine even when you asked for ``sleep,''
>      just in case it dies in its sleep.

Actually I've been working on a "sleep" of sorts.. the tadpole has a device
which lets you muck with the speed of the CPU.  Unfortunately it's totally
undocumented.. but I'm making some small progress..

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