On Nov 23, 2007 3:19 PM, Eric van Horssen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ever since I changed my AT motherboard for an ATX, the powerbutton got > a new function.
Well it's more or less the same function, just that it does an orderly shutdown, for safety. At least on machines I've used, pressing it quickly either powers the machine on, or shuts it down. What else would you do with it? > Or if I want the old function, I have to press it for 4 seconds? > (Oh and on the b&w Palm Vx, holding the On/Off button for a while, > used to turn on the background light) Yeah the other ones from that generation are the same. Well if the hardware could go into an ultra-deep sleep instantly, and keep memory active for weeks in that state without charging, and hardly ever needed to do a real actual power-off, it would be an option to use the quick press to sleep, and press/hold to control the backlight. (But in the ultra-deep sleep, GSM would have to be powered off, and you'd miss calls.) I wonder if they kept these behaviors the same on Linux-based palms? and do the apps still not have any way to close them? (My newest one is a Clie with pre-Linux PalmOS) Someday system memory will be non-volatile. Then probably every computer will behave more like the Palm, as long as software can become less buggy, so that rebooting just to purge memory and start over is not so necessary. But the Palm's SRAM is effectively nonvolatile as long as your batteries hold up.
