why don't we have turbo buttons on pcs anymore
this is a travesty
pc gotta go fast
@BatElite oh my gosh <3
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@BatElite @Nine The turbo button was someone's idea of making a virtue of necessity. A lot of older programs used the processor's own clock to time events, so if you were to take a game designed to run on a 10MHz processor and put it in your computer with a fancy new 100MHz processor, it would run at ten times the intended speed. The turbo button was the solution to this: turning it off would drop the clock speed down to something that was reasonable during that era, for using old programs. Turning it on would put the clock back to normal speed.
@Nine i mean its funny cuz turbo buttons did the opposite of what the name suggests
@pup_hime oh heck I am definitely up for learning some truth about turbo buttons. *bounces excitely* tell me more please??
@Nine oh well all they did was slow down the cpu clock to let you run programs that would run too fast on a newer model
@pup_hime oh my gosh
holy crap
I...
that's AMZING. That's so friggin daft and absolutely a marketing ploy like "shit we can't sell this if we tell the truth, let's say it's a TURBO button and that it's getting double the speed of the computer!"
@pup_hime I love it. thank you! :D
@Nine What did it do? Repeatedly fire every keyboard key?