clipka <ano### [at] anonymousorg> wrote:
> 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.

  DOS could change the CPU/memory frequency by modifying BIOS and without
having to reboot?

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                                                          - Warp

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