> >and noboby knows why you have to
> >move the mouse during simulation of one's machine code, to get it to
> >'run to' quicker,
>
> FIIK  (F...ed If I Know)

Just guessing here, but most modern (last 3 years) PCs go into reduced clock
power save modes (Energy Star Green PC (tm)) if there is no "user" activity
within a certain time. "user" activity is taken to mean mouse, keyboard,
serial or printer port interrupts.

I have never run, indeed seen, this simulator, but if it takes a long time
and you wander off to lead a life for a few minutes, your PC may go into
powersave mode and run really s l o w l y . To avoid this, bump the mouse,
or reboot into your bios setup mode and reset the powersave parameters in
your bios.

Since I am just guessing here, please feel free to flame me to cinders if
I got it way wrong. If I am close, please keep it to lukewarm.


-dg


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