On Sat, 11 May 2002, Joel Rosenberg wrote:

> Games.  It used to be, back in the old days, that some games that ran just 
> fine on an 8088 or 8086 ran too fast on those screaming 80286 machines.  

the turbo button was there long before the 286 showed up, the 8088 and the 
8086 proccessors came in a variety of speeds, the normal or deturbo 
setting set them all to the standard IBM compatable speed

 -munir