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Yup. Those were power-hungry times, without deep sleep modes, or even useful hibernation. Heck, most machines then didn't even bother to reduce clock speed when idle.

"It is now safe to turn off this computer"

I remember when I saw my first ATX computer, and it turned itself off. That was cool.

The CPUs used hardly any power so there wasn't much point throttling them. The rest of the computer and the CRT used loads though.

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