What did the "Turbo" button do on the 90's PCs?

Wrong answers only.

@monsieuricon install OS2 Wrap

@monsieuricon It installed TurboPascal, obviosly.

@monsieuricon It starts a whistle and your PC gets ~50CV

@monsieuricon It turned off the air conditioner to divert all spare power for extra performance

It dumped more fuel into the math co-processor, which made flames shoot out of the exhaust vents.

@monsieuricon it dispensed chewing gum "Turbo".

@monsieuricon It made the CPU drop every other bit, so it was able to go through twice the bits in same time

@kroitus I recognize a fellow 90's post-soviet block kid when I see one. :)

@monsieuricon it dumped the exhaust electrons back into the decoder to make EMM386 load TSRs into UMBs.

@Omkhar I like the idea of exhaust electrons.

@monsieuricon jet thrusters

@kroitus @monsieuricon those Turbo "gums" would easily dislodge any tooth fillings you have 😅

@monsieuricon it’s basically science. Or something.

@monsieuricon vaporwave mode

@monsieuricon It summoned KITT.

@monsieuricon
Activated the nitrous boosters, obviously. But then we suffered a severe shortage of nitrous oxide for use in dental procedures, so the government outlawed the turbo button.

@monsieuricon
It plays a song, at random, from Judas Priest's album Turbo.

@snacktraces A chiptune PC Speaker version? That would be awesome.

@monsieuricon it installed the Turbo virus from that movie about arcade video games.

@monsieuricon it caused time around you to speed up, aging you twice as fast.

@monsieuricon
It rerouted all CPU commands to a MOS Technology 6510 coprocessor.

@kerfuffle I said "wrong answers only!"

@monsieuricon Turbo was actually sort for TU Release Blessed Oranges and would summon fruit for you

@kroitus@river.group.lt @monsieuricon@social.kernel.org dammit, just wanted to write this!

@monsieuricon easy, increased exhaust opening and your PC sounded better

@monsieuricon Booted https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbo_the_Tortoise from a ROM

@monsieuricon
It made the girl you were secretly in love with to go for a date with you.

But it didn't. So you spent your evenings alone learning PHP to build a social network to eventually spy on her at the university.

But the service took off and got out of your hands, destroyed democracy and eventually the whole Earth, as the elected leaders were so dumb to not prioritize dealing with global risks for local profit.

@monsieuricon
Enabled cool RGB lights and set fans to 120% speed

@xexaxo @monsieuricon toffee candies (also known as "iris") were way more affective at that.

@monsieuricon made games load much faster from the cassette tape.