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This one intrigues me in a perverse way

Posted Jun 18, 2009 3:58 UTC (Thu) by felixfix (subscriber, #242)
Parent article: 2.6.31 merge window, week 1

The s390 architecture has added support for hibernation.

I suppose this is so a mainframe can go to sleep when you open a maintenance door instead of close its lid.

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Posted Jun 18, 2009 11:12 UTC (Thu) by epa (subscriber, #39769) [Link]

Either that or Big Blue is about to launch an S/390-based iPhone killer.

This one intrigues me in a perverse way

Posted Jun 23, 2009 13:18 UTC (Tue) by Baylink (subscriber, #755) [Link]

Damnit. Not only did you beat me to the joke, you did almost exactly the same one I was gonna do.

No, wait:

"So that when you close the lid on your mainframe, it takes less power while it's asleep."

:-)

I do wonder, though: why do 390 arch machines need to hibernate? Or is this for things like native virtualization...