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bombarolo • today at 6:01 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

There was that “Turbo” button on my (self-made) 386sx, that magically doubled the CPU clock. This is what “turbo” meant in the 90s, weird.


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SoftTalker • today at 6:05 PM

Yeah a lot of them had that turbo button. I always thought it was kind of a Spinal Tap thing.

"Why don't you just run it at the faster speed all the time, and make that the regular speed?"

"Ours have turbo"

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