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That includes disruption of their mental capacity ("Taycan Turbo"): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbocharger https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbocharger https
by ancorevard 7y ago
That includes disruption of their mental capacity ("Taycan Turbo"): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbocharger https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbocharger
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1169695493594574848 https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1169695493594574848
- masklinn 7y agoEither that or musk is their usual dishonest hack who will in this case ignore language changes and expansions when that suits them. I'm guessing the latter given turbo has meant more than "ICE turbocharger" for longer than musk has been alive: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbopump https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbopump * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turboexpander https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turboexpander * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbo_button https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbo_button
- boardwaalk 7y agoTwo of those things are fossil fuel related and conceptually similar to a turbocharger and the last hasn't been used seriously for decades. Dishonest hack? Eesh. You should consider stepping back a little :/.
- magicalhippo 7y agoMy 286 had a Turbo button that made it go extra fast, pretty sure it didn't have any turbocharger inside either.
- a_t48 7y agoI thought the turbo button slowed things down?
- magicalhippo 7y agoMine most gave a very noticeable speed boost, which was expected given it bumped the clock from 8 MHz to 12 MHz. Fun to toggle during games.
- dogma1138 7y agoIt depends on the main board jumper if the clockrate was set to high on open then it slowed it down if not then it increased the speed when the turbo switch was enabled (closed). It basically gave you anywhere from 50% to 100% increase in CPU speed at the time. That said for most people it would probably have done nothing since the turbo button was available on cases till the mid 90’s where it did nothing and often wasn’t even connected. I had one on my MMX pentium PC but it did absolutely squat.
- masklinn 7y agoDepended on the implementation. Some turbo buttons were wired to run at low clock when pressed, others to run at "real" clock when pressed. That's why they often had some sort of LED or display (2x7 segments).
- tirant 7y agoI never understood why CPUs were not running at max clockspeed by default. Was it because some applications were clock dependant?
- masklinn 7y ago> I never understood why CPUs were not running at max clockspeed by default. Pretty sure the machines were usually shipped in "turbo" configuration. > Was it because some applications were clock dependant? Lots. The original PC CPU (8088?) ran at 4.7MHz or something. Lots of early games (not only games but that was very obvious for them) were developed with a "fixed hardware" mindset and would rely on busy loop and CPU clock for the "game clock". So when you got a faster CPU the entire game would speed up. Things got funky on an 8MHz 268 and outright screwy on a 386 or 486 (whose latter models reached 100MHz).
- JoeAltmaier 7y agoOne of the crimes propagated from that issue was, Intel deliberately crippled the data-move instruction because folks who shipped lots of software (OK Microsoft) used it for timing. So as CPUs increased by an order of magnitude, the one-byte ultra-fast data move opcodes become the slowest way to move data. A crime against humanity. For this reason I'd asked Intel (as a senior programmer at one of Intel's largest CPU chip consumers) for a fixed-rate timer register when they made the 386 e.g. 1MHz free-running counter regardless of CPU speed. While they did implement other requested features (breakpoint registers) somebody screwed up the timer feature and made it full-clock-speed and accessible only thru a privileged instruction. Thus useless for applications.
- anentropic 7y agoAgree, calling an EV car 'Turbo' is the stupidest thing ever
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- ChuckNorris89 7y agoCalling lane following Autopilot is even worse IMHO.
- joaomacp 7y agoFollowing that reasoning, Musk's mental capacity has been disrupted ever since he called Tesla's driving assist "Autopilot".
- threeseed 7y agoPorsche has sold the 911, Cayene and Macan Turbo variants for years. It stopped meaning "turbocharger" and now means "more powerful".