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Originally Posted by yankeejeep
The power switch puts it into minimal power usage, so the display is turned off, the CPU is trottled back to its lowest speed, and trickle power flow is provided to RAM to maintain the main memory area
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I wonder if the CPU is needed at all just to give a constant refresh current to the RAM (which is, AFAIK, can very easily be done by just putting, say, a DC level on one of its chip legs.)