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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@mit.edu