Comment on Did you ever use your Toe to turn one of these on or off?

zakobjoa@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• Lumidaub@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I am old enough to know what that is, to have seen several of them in person, to have pressed several of them myself out of curiosity, but apparently too young to ever have seen any effect at all. What did the “turbo” do?

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  • OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It actually clocked the processor down rather than speeding things up.

    In the early days of PCs games usually just ran as fast as the processor ran. As the processors got faster, games started to run too quickly to play. The turbo button slowed down the processor speed so you could still play those older games.

    Now games use the clock to determine how quickly things happen, not the speed of the processor, so we don’t have that problem.

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  • relativestranger@feddit.nl ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbo_button

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    • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Ah, the good ol’ days when an Intel 486 with a 66 MHz CPU was cutting edge home computing 😄

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