Remember when PCs had turbo buttons? Why don't modern

Programs don't run in bare metal anymore.

>>56247380
Because they serve no purpose unless you're on a 486 and trying to run 8086 software.

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Because it add 5 cents to the manufacturing costs and manufacturers are getting jewier every year. Now we have to turn turbo on through software.

>>56247405
uh
macbook is made from metal

>>56247453
Kek

>>56247380
Because we have Intel Turbo Boost now.

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>>56247453
Silicon is a metal?

>>56247380
Remember when cars had spark advances?
Why don't modern cars have them?

Im assuming op thinks turbo buttons "turbo" the cpu . In which case I understand why he/she/xim/her/xit would want one .

>>56247380
the kind of dogshit/ancient software you actually used that button for was already nearly a decade old by the time they became commonplace

don't modern CPUs "turbo" automagically?

We no longer need to underclock the CPU to make programs run properly.

>>56247380
If you're trying to slow down a modern computer, you just have to install Windows on it.

>>56248388
Turbo button didn't increase speed of CPU, it actually did opposite.

It was for backward compatibility with old software that was written for static clock that computers of the time outperformed by fold of 10.

>>56248423
So the modern equivalent would be the "battery saving" mode in laptops which throttles the CPU to half frequency.

>>56248423
DosBox actually has this functionality to hammer your CPU to slow down those old games.

>>56247380
Because it would slow down to the speed of earlier Intel processors and your current OS would crash.

>>56247500
It's a metalloid.

>>56248423
>>56248878
My life has been a lie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2q02Bxtqds

>>56247380
If you remembered why we had them, you should know why we no longer do you fucking retard.

>>56248832
DosBox does the exact opposite of "hammering", decreasing the number of emulated cycles to slow down the game causes the host CPU to work less.

You're probably thinking of older stuff like Mo'Slo.

So wait, why is it called turbo then

>>56249153
Because having a button labeled "SLOW" would've been too funny.

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>>56247380
my car still has one

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>>56247380
>tfw now you have to buy new hardware for your computer to go faster since there is no longer a button for that

>>56250345
>not knowing what the turbo button is for
How's middle school?

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the pregayor still has one

>>56247380
They could. I don't see why it couldn't be a boutique thing for prebuilts to have one-touch overclocking. I think it's just that performance is "good enough" now that no one wants to go to the trouble of the overengineered route anymore.
>inb4 turbo buttons actually underclocked

Normies couldn't use them.

I made a sleeper in a case with a turbo button and when I press it it overclocks the CPU from 4GHz to 6GHz

>>56248423
/thread

Basically Devs weren't used to clockspeed changes.
C64 never changed
Apple 2 went through god knows how many iterations and mostly stayed the same clock speed.

Then you had shit like Intel, and all of a sudden PCs became faster more often

So while real work normally wasn't affected
Vidya was, cause devs banked on you using this software with a 286 (Maybe they accounted for shittier)

[As for the apple2 example, both the 2c and 2GS had a similar feature - except they weren't retards and called their modes shit Fast (maybe Normal) or Slow]

>>56250724
f*cking normies xd

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>>56247453