Re: [TCLUG:14343] desktop apm (powerless sleep)

["Eric M. Hopper" <hopper@omnifarious.mn.org>]

On Sun, Mar 05, 2000 at 11:20:12AM -0600, Ben Luey wrote:
> I was using a Sony Vio laptop and it has this great feature: you press
> a button and it stores all your ram to the disk and cuts power. The
> laptop is totally off and then when you turn it on it just copies the
> data from the hard drive back to the ram and you are right back where
> you left off.
> 
> Could I do this on a desktop with linux?  Linux being totally stable
> but taking a while to load seems like a great fit for this feature of
> desktop machines.

	Someone told me on Saturday that BeOS does that.  It sounds like
a neat feature.  They described it as being able to turn it off, then
turn it on and and come back to right where you were when you turned it
off.

Have fun (if at all possible),
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