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.
Sleep turns off most computer components except for RAM. Active data is kept in RAM as a computer is used, but RAM is volatile, meaning that it cannot maintain data without power. This compares to hard drives and solid state drives, which are non-volatile and do not require constant power.