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Energy consumption of retro devices and software: estimating, measuring, and improving.

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When did energy saving start to become important?

There was a time where computers often just stayed on all the time. Computer monitors did not have power save functions... they were either on or off. Processors such as the 6502, 68000, 8086, 286, ...
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