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It was a panasonic of some sort. Don't remember the details that clearly. Remember the turbo button, and I remember being upset that Wolfenstein 3D required a
by compsciphd 9y ago
It was a panasonic of some sort. Don't remember the details that clearly. Remember the turbo button, and I remember being upset that Wolfenstein 3D required a 286 and wouldn't run on it. I'm also positive it came with more than 640k of ram, as would go through the tricks to load things in the upper portion to have more "normal" ram for games and the like.
- robin_reala 9y agoI’m surprised that it came with a turbo button; those were a hack to downclock the bus to a lower speed to get old software that had assumed a specific clock speed to work correctly. Would be unusual on an 8086.
- rzzzt 9y agoSome of them just enabled/disabled the cache to achieve slowdown; the 7-segment display on the front of the case was all a ruse! A set of jumpers controlled what value to show depending on the state of the switch.
- ido 9y agolots of 8088/8086 "turbo xt"s had their CPU run at 8-10mhz vs 4.77mhz for the original IBM PC & XT.
- twoodfin 9y agoYup, I had an 8Mhz Hyundai XT clone with the same "feature".