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4 Sep 2024 23:19:32 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Opensuse 11 Live CD problem?  
From: clipka
Date: 30 Oct 2009 10:15:27
Message: <4aeaf4ff$1@news.povray.org>
Warp schrieb:

>   I don't understand why linux would modify the frequency/timings of cpu and
> memory, and even if it did, why it would have to modify BIOS to do that.
> (What good would it do to modify BIOS anyways? It would have to re-boot in
> order for the changes to become effective. BIOS is not something which is
> constantly running in the background. It just sets up the hardware and starts
> the OS and that's it.)

Well, /nowadays/ that's how it is. Used to be different in DOS times.

Then again, that's quite a long time ago...


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