Do you guys remember the TURBO button on PC's?
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Originally Posted by Liebernoodle,Mar 24 2006, 03:40 PM
King's Quest, Space Quest, Leisure Suit Larry, etc etc
ahh the memories
ahh the memories
I played all those quest games.. from 1.. to like 5.. on each.. stopped about there tho 
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Originally Posted by Clayman,Mar 24 2006, 06:26 PM
Come to think of it, a turbo button could be useful on other things in life...the car, the washing machine, the dishwasher, the lawnmower, and on and on!
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The 'turbo' button served a very real purpose on PCs with Intel 386 and 486 processors. The prior Intel CPU series, 386, had no on chip math coprocessor. But some time after its introduction, Intel added a mathco processor to the chipset external to the CPU to help speed up, well ... math processing. But the math co processor broke some older applications that had been written before the math coprocessor was added. So nearly all PCs of the day had a 'turbo' button that turned the math coprocessor on and off. Normal operational mode was 'turbo' with the math coprocessor on. But for compatibility, you could turn off the math coprocessor too. This feature carried over to the 486 series of processors too. The 486 had the math coprocessor onboard the CPU chip. But there were also versions of the 486 available without the math coprocessor at all (486sx I think?). But the ability to enable or disable the math coprocessor was maintained for some years for compatibility.
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Originally Posted by corey415,Mar 24 2006, 11:01 PM
486 DX 33 Mhz with the TURBO button representin.
Nowadays, I underclock/undervolt my Pentium-M CPU so that it saves battery life and stays cool on my lap. By undervolting, it stays at 40C instead of 50C.
The new generation of processors clock/volt themselves on demand saving power and staying cooler. This already happens on Pentium-M's and will probably happen on the new Intel "Conroe" processors as well.
