On Saturday 11 May 2002 01:15 pm, you wrote:

>
> So I ask, where did the turbo button come from and what is its intended
> purpose?
>
> -Brian
>

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.