Fun fact for anyone who doesn’t know about the turbo button: it usually slowed down your computer. This was to make it compatible with older software that was written for slower processors, otherwise it would run way too fast. That was especially a problem for old games that would be pretty much unplayable unless you slowed them down.
Calling a button that slows down your computer “turbo” was confusing for a lot of people, though, so some manufacturers made turbo the computer’s normal speed and slowed it down when it was turned off. Oddly, though, making their computers work the exact opposite way most worked didn’t do much to make things less confusing.
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Fun fact for anyone who doesn’t know about the turbo button: it usually slowed down your computer. This was to make it compatible with older software that was written for slower processors, otherwise it would run way too fast. That was especially a problem for old games that would be pretty much unplayable unless you slowed them down.
Calling a button that slows down your computer “turbo” was confusing for a lot of people, though, so some manufacturers made turbo the computer’s normal speed and slowed it down when it was turned off. Oddly, though, making their computers work the exact opposite way most worked didn’t do much to make things less confusing.