On Tue, 01 Jun 2004 22:04:14 +1200, Bruce Hoult
wrote:

In article cCUlhtvFIYkV-pn2-F8c8m9DhFJ44@localhost,
"Ian Johnston" wrote:

On Tue, 1 Jun 2004 08:09:33 UTC, Stefan
wrote:

: At the time the term was
: introduced, "turbo" was a synonym for "better", "extra" etc.

Somewhere - I must get round to throwing it out - I have a PC with a
"Turbo" button which runs the 386 inside it at an amazing 16MHz (12MHz
otherwise).

The original PC "turbo" buttons ran the machine at 8 MHz instead of 4.77
MHz!!

......but not long after that Zenith really extracted the urine from
the whole turbo marketing concept by selling the "Zenith Turbo Sport
386e" laptop computer.
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