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Re: Turbo Switch

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From: Piers Samwell-Smith
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 1995 00:00
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In article <570269555wnr@rococo.demon.co.uk>
           Roger@rococo.demon.co.uk "Roger Cook" writes:

> both machines had been switched to a lower speed - 8MHz instead of 33MHz I
[snip]
> strange that something would work at a higher speed and not at a lower one. Any
>  
> comments?

On some motherboards the turbo switch does not alter the clock speed but
simply disables any secondary cache (in the off pos). Not that I can
think of a reason why this would affect the floppy (something to do with
DMA perhaps).


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From: Piers Samwell-Smith <Piers@simsems.demon.co.uk>
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Date: 1995/11/29
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