Advanced Power Management
API for power management in IBM-compatible computers / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Advanced power management (APM) is a technical standard for power management developed by Intel and Microsoft and released in 1992[1] which enables an operating system running an IBM-compatible personal computer to work with the BIOS (part of the computer's firmware) to achieve power management.
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Abbreviation | APM |
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Status | Deprecated |
First published | 1992 |
Latest version | 1.2 1996 |
Organization | Intel, Microsoft |
Successor | ACPI |
Domain | Power management |
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Revision 1.2 was the last version of the APM specification, released in 1996. ACPI is the successor to APM. Microsoft dropped support for APM in Windows Vista. The Linux kernel still mostly supports APM, though support for APM CPU idle was dropped in version 3.0.