Among the superstar players who came and went through the NBA without scaling the heights of Wennington (although several likely scaled him and dunked on him) are Hall of Famers Elgin Baylor, Charles Barkley, Patrick Ewing and John Stockton.
sleep mode. Related Terms. An energy-saving mode of operation in which all unnecessary components are shut down. Many battery-operated devices, such as notebook computers, support a sleep mode. When a notebook computer goes into sleep mode, it shuts down the display screen and disk drive.
That is, since the computer's information is stored in RAM, the PC will resume much quicker than if it were in hibernation or full shutdown mode â just like with standard sleep. The problem is, in the event of a power outage, this information would be lost so any unsaved work may be unrecoverable.