why don't we have turbo buttons on pcs anymore

this is a travesty

pc gotta go fast

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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.

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@Rosemary @Nine So what you're saying is I really need a turbo button myself. :P

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