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by ant6n 1687 days ago
My family's 486 had a turbo button that switched between 33 and 66 MHz, with the frequency being shiwn on the case like a digital clock.
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That screen was just telling you whether the switch was on or off, though - the logic to decide what to display was just a series of jumpers in the case front. That's why some were configured to read

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and

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instead. It's not like it was actually measuring the bus frequency.