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What's a "turbo XT"? A IBM XT was, what, a 8088 CPU? On which kind of OS was lynx running on a 8088? I remember running Lynx on Linux using slow modems but the
by TacticalCoder 5y ago
What's a "turbo XT"? A IBM XT was, what, a 8088 CPU? On which kind of OS was lynx running on a 8088?
I remember running Lynx on Linux using slow modems but these were 386 and 486 PCs. I wonder what was that "turbo XT".
- snypher 5y agoIt had a Turbo button and we made sure it was always on. As to what it did, none of us really knew. But it was on, and there was a problem if it was off. So even if it wasn't connected to anything inside the beige tower it still made things better.
- Stratoscope 5y agoMaybe it worked like the Magic Switch: http://catb.org/jargon/html/magic-story.html http://catb.org/jargon/html/magic-story.html
- teddyh 5y agoIf the turbo button is off, the PC is clocked to run slower. Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2q02Bxtqds https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2q02Bxtqds
- dredmorbius 5y agoCounterintuitively, a button on i-286 through i-486 processor systems which when activated slowed the CPU clock. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbo_button https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbo_button
- rzzzt 5y agoThe NEC V20 and other 8088 compatibles could run at 8 or 10 MHz as opposed to the standard 4.77 MHz. I guess it had one of those.
- NoGravitas 5y agoMost likely, they were running a terminal emulator on the XT, and dialed in to a multiuser Unix system running lynx.