i guess the button was quite advanced by the time it got to 16/20 Mhz. I just remember a friend who had a 286 which was 4 and 8 mhz from memory.
my amiga was 7.12 but it had a "chipset" and a high bandwidth blitter. as for modern over-clocking it just depends on how conservative the ratings are to start with. i guess it's about reliability and heat disbursement. On Feb 16, 7:35 pm, Casper Bang <[email protected]> wrote: > > The turbo button on old computers was not an over-clocker, it was > > simply a clock-halver. > > I'm pretty sure my old 386 would go from 16 to 20 Mhz when I pressed > the turbo button though. But obviously clock-halvers were easier to > make, since all you needed was a flip-flop (2 NAND gates). > > > I do remember my girlfriend's father never used the turbo button > > because he thought it would hurt the computer. > > My my have we come far, today computers are 20-30% over-clocked from > the factory. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
