This has been an issue for so long - who is at fault? Is it hardware vendors or software? The spec itself is so bad that all implementations will disagree? Hal

This has been an issue for so long - who is at fault? Is it hardware vendors or software? The spec itself is so bad that all implementations will disagree? Halting power until an external physical event seems like a simple enough idea. I have never wanted to close my laptop and let it keep number crunching.