🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <1990Sep25.1...@nntp-server.caltech.edu>, roe...@portia.caltech.edu (Roeber, Frederick) writes:
|> In article <3289@mindlink.UUCP>, a80@mindlink.UUCP (Greg Goss) writes...
|> >On some machines it's faster to turn the thing off at the OFF switch.
|> > 
|> >In the middle of a Hack game (critical data, eh?) I accidentally kicked the
|> >plug out from my Amiga 1000.  I managed to get it plugged in again before the
|> >power supply gave up.  The benefits of not having hard disks or extra memory.
|> >I can't imagine it taking me any less than 6 seconds to realize what happenned
|> >and getting under the desk to replug the computer.
|> > 
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Yeah, apart from the power supply storing charge, those dynamic RAM chips can hold data for a long while too, often a couple of minutes, which is enough to confuse the user who just hits reset or switches on/off quickly, and then 
wonders why the machine is still buggered. I seem to remember Texas selling 4ms (not 2ms) refresh chips. I bet they just tested them. Do they still reduce the RAM refresh time on PC's to speed them up?

bob
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