From: John H. Kim (jokim_at_MIT.EDU)
Date: Mon Oct 28 1996 - 13:32:27 EST
On Mon, 28 Oct 1996, Paul Rubin wrote:
> I've mentioned this before but I really don't like the
> heat level current laptops run at. They seem to
> like cranking the clock speeds up to just short of
> meltdown. Then if process improvements cut the cpu power
> consumption at a given clock rate, rather than letting
> the chip run cooler, they crank up the clock some more.
> I'd much rather have a cool-running 100 mhz machine than
> a blistering hot 133 mhz machine.
I'll say it again. Intel CPUs have a halt instruction built in.
Linux uses it and runs cool on my 701. I hear OS/2 uses it as
well. Windows 95 does not and runs almost unbearably hot. I don't
know about Windows NT. I can make Linux run as hot as Win95 by
leaving a processor-intensive background task running. Nag Microsoft
to fix Windows.
-- John H. Kim jokim_at_mit.edu
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