If you're curious, I think this is the original proposal from ~ 1996. It's amazing to see all the old hardware vendors on these things. Gateway and Maxtor are d

If you're curious, I think this is the original proposal from ~ 1996. It's amazing to see all the old hardware vendors on these things. Gateway and Maxtor are dead now (Maxtor is on the ATA-3 specification). I like that this covers two pretty common use cases. I wonder if the current "sleep" technology of computers does this with the RAM, or if they use another more modern mechanism. http://t13.org/Documents/UploadedDocuments/technical/d96137r0.pdf http://t13.org/Documents/UploadedDocuments/technical/d96137r...