on GUIs and such things

[David Bakin]

It isn't especially important w.r.t. the topic, but for accuracy:  Win2K
hibernate mode (= suspend to disk) and standby mode (= suspend to RAM) both
require BIOS ACPI support but in addition requires a lot of work in the
Win2K kernel and its drivers.  It is a cooperative effort in other words, it
certainly is not done by the BIOS alone.  In fact, BIOS-only hibernate
solutions (which used to be available, e.g., on Toshiba laptops) do not work
for Win2K.

[This answer isn't an official response of Microsoft corporation - just my
own knowledge (from reading publicly available documents).]

-- Dave


-----Original Message-----
From: Jonathan S. Shapiro [mailto:shap@eros-os.org]
Sent: Sunday, July 23, 2000 10:38 AM
To: Shawn T. Rutledge; Kragen Sitaker
Cc: eros-arch@eros-os.org
Subject: Re: on GUIs and such things


> On Thu, Jul 20, 2000 at 08:45:10PM -0400, Kragen Sitaker wrote:
> > Persistence is useful for folks that need quick reboots; indeed,
> > Windows 2000 and Linux both have the ability now to persist a running
> > system image to disk so as to reboot more quickly; unfortunately, PCs
>
> How do you do that on Linux?

It's not really accurate to say that Win2K or Linux do this. It's a function
of the BIOS software, often called "suspend" or "sleep mode".