For most of us it was a misnomer because it was a lag button not a turbo button. It defaulted to on. If you turned it off it would make the machine slower, allo

For most of us it was a misnomer because it was a lag button not a turbo button. It defaulted to on. If you turned it off it would make the machine slower, allowing certain programs to run properly instead of too fast for humans. But we all have stories of a friend whose machine was slow because they hit the button not understanding what it does. For them it did become the turbo button.