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Before the internet was on 24/7 with broadband connections everywhere people didn't run their PC all the time. It's not like you had a local wifi network to se
by qbasic_forever 5y ago
Before the internet was on 24/7 with broadband connections everywhere people didn't run their PC all the time. It's not like you had a local wifi network to serve data, etc. to your other devices. You turned the PC on, played a game, did some spreadsheets, dialed in to AOL, and then turned it off. Those PCs pulled 300+ watts of power at idle too and were huge power hogs. Running your windows 95 PC nonstop for days and months at a time was not common at all.
- LargoLasskhyfv 5y agoMaybe, maybe not. At the times W95 was usual, I mostly ran NetBSD and later some Gentoo and Debian on my assorted systems. Furthermore, most systems had PSUs rated at 200 to 250 Watt, which they didn't even burn if one used operating systems which knew what to do with the CPUs HLT instruction during idle, or less load, also spinning down disks was a thing. BTW, there was software which made W95/98 use HLT too. Rain, Waterfall, CPUidle, or something like that. Which became obsolete with W2000 which did that by itself. Shrug.