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Like the Turbo switch on a PC! Of course those did have a purpose. You would run in Turbo mode all the time, except when you were running bad old software like
by Stratoscope 7y ago
Like the Turbo switch on a PC!
Of course those did have a purpose. You would run in Turbo mode all the time, except when you were running bad old software like I wrote, that used timing loops assuming a 4.77 MHz clock rate.
- qubex 7y agoMy father used to hit Block Scor (“Blocca Scorrimento” in Italian, meaning “Scroll Lock”), disable TURBO, and then pipe DIR * . * | MORE on our shambolic 386SX-16MHz to see all the files he had in the pigsty directory he kept all his documents in, all of which horrified me.