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June 1st 04, 04:57 PM
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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. -- martin@ : Martin Gregorie gregorie : Harlow, UK demon : co : Zappa fan & glider pilot uk : 
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