[MPlayer-users] Re: How to pause mencoder

[Tobias Diedrich]

D Richard Felker III wrote:

> It's called the HALT instruction. Completely different from notebook
> powersaving features like APM and stuff. It's been there at least
> since the original pentium.

The 8086 already had it. :-)
Even the 8080/Z80 has a halt instruction.
But for the Athlon it does not conserve that much energy unless you
enable the "bus Disconnect when STPGNT detected" and "VLink
Auto-disconnect" bits on the chipset.  AFAIK the reason for that lies in
the bus protocol they bought from alpha.

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