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- From: tim@nijinsky.ipac.caltech.edu (Tim Conrow)
- Subject: Re: another battery drainage question...
- In-Reply-To: akcs.joehorn@hpcvbbs.cv.hp.com's message of Fri, 31 Jul 1992 07: 40:11 GMT
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- Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 19:18:35 GMT
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- akcs.joehorn@hpcvbbs.cv.hp.com (Joseph K. Horn) writes:
-
- OK, how's this for a design concept: When first turned on, the machine
- would be in "calculator mode" (no vars, no libs; that's programming,
- that's computers!) and turn on real fast because it wouldn't have to
- do a RAM checksum. And if you want, you can use it, and turn it off
- again (it'd turn off fast), still in "calculator mode". But, if while
- it's on, you press VAR or LIBRARY or USER etc., it would ONLY THEN
- pause to do the checksum, and then be in "computer mode". The fine
- details of memory management in "calculator mode" would, of course, be
- HP's headache, but be transparent to the user.
-
- Sound like a plan?
-
- -jkh- -just brainstormin'-
-
- That sounds cool, and way beyond what I orginally had in mind. I was just
- thinkin' of a 'PAUSE' key to hit when you wanted the `48 to go low
- power but not really off. When I have time I'm willing to give it my best
- shot, but I'm a LONG way from a wizard on fine control of this wonderous
- beast.
-
- But, hey, who am I to argue with JKH? :-) :-)
-
- -- Tim -you've got good brainstorms-
-