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  2. CPU time - Wikipedia

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    CPU time (or process time) is the amount of time that a central processing unit (CPU) was used for processing instructions of a computer program or operating system. CPU time is measured in clock ticks or seconds. Sometimes it is useful to convert CPU time into a percentage of the CPU capacity, giving the CPU usage.

  3. Boot ROM - Wikipedia

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    When a system on a chip (SoC) enters suspend to RAM mode, in many cases, the processor is completely off while the RAM is put in self refresh mode. At resume, the boot ROM is executed again and many boot ROMs are able to detect that the SoC was in suspend to RAM and can resume by jumping directly to the kernel which then takes care of powering on again the peripherals which were off and ...

  4. Instructions per second - Wikipedia

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    The first PC compiler was for BASIC (1982) when a 4.8 MHz 8088/87 CPU obtained 0.01 MWIPS. Results on a 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo (1 CPU 2007) vary from 9.7 MWIPS using BASIC Interpreter, 59 MWIPS via BASIC Compiler, 347 MWIPS using 1987 Fortran, 1,534 MWIPS through HTML/Java to 2,403 MWIPS using a modern C / C++ compiler.

  5. ACPI - Wikipedia

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    The "It's now safe to power off the system" screen in Windows 10 and 11. Microsoft's Windows 98 was the first operating system to implement ACPI, [ 17 ] [ 18 ] but its implementation was somewhat buggy or incomplete, [ 19 ] [ 20 ] although some of the problems associated with it were caused by the first-generation ACPI hardware. [ 21 ]

  6. Booting - Wikipedia

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    Some earlier computer systems, upon receiving a boot signal from a human operator or a peripheral device, may load a very small number of fixed instructions into memory at a specific location, initialize at least one CPU, and then point the CPU to the instructions and start their execution.

  7. Cambridge Dictionary’s word of the year 2024 is all about ...

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    Cambridge Dictionary has put it out to the universe, naming “manifest” as its word of the year for 2024.. Popularized by celebrities such as singer Dua Lipa, “manifest” refers to the ...

  8. Big Ten fines Michigan and Ohio State $100,000 each for ...

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    The Big Ten Conference announced it fined Michigan and Ohio State $100,000 each for violating the conference's sportsmanship policy for the on-field melee at the end of the Wolverines' win in ...

  9. Cold start (computing) - Wikipedia

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    Cold start (or cold boot) may also refer to a booting process of a single computer (or virtual machine). [2] In this case services and other startup applications are executed after reboot. The system is typically made available to the user even though startup operations are still performed and slow down other operations.