Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,alt.comp.os.windows-11 Subject: Re: Microsoft Is Abandoning Windows 11 SE Date: 10 Aug 2025 19:57:10 GMT Lines: 27 Message-ID: References: <106mke5$1di32$1@dont-email.me> <106ukm1$35g8p$3@toylet.eternal-september.org> <106v67a$1cgol$1@news1.tnib.de> <106vfvv$3bpmd$1@toylet.eternal-september.org> <106vi4r$3c9cr$2@dont-email.me> <3ihcmlx47d.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> <107070d$3hvho$1@dont-email.me> <1071hb2$3qqje$2@toylet.eternal-september.org> <1071ime$3qrld$2@dont-email.me> <20250807085908.000006a3@gmail.com> <107522e$oqfg$1@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net CY7XaO7HkjumkDizd0n1NwyZBeXCaTSOHYWxVnJUIDBCay0ay+ Cancel-Lock: sha1:4p3MrtKIoZY+Xsz5b63aPncY2Po= sha256:ttAsWYgr2QsIG3ORzdMeWuWZTiYQO3lqSt4YtGy0yLo= User-Agent: Pan/0.162 (Pokrosvk) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:70752 alt.comp.os.windows-11:21888 On Sun, 10 Aug 2025 13:33:40 +0200, Carlos E.R. wrote: > On 2025-08-09 23:58, rbowman wrote: >> On Sat, 9 Aug 2025 14:06:08 +0200, Carlos E.R. wrote: >> >>> On most machines I saw, the turbo button "on" actually let the machine >>> run at its normal design speed. When "off", it slowed the machine >>> significantly, so that games and some apps would behave as if running >>> in the original IBM PC. No overclocking involved. >> >> You may be correct. It's been a long time. >> >> Many apps were designed around the 55 msec 'tick' that was generated >> when the 8253 PIT rolled over at 64K. A fun project was twiddling with >> the PIT to generate, say, a 5 msec interrupt grabbing the interrupt for >> your nefarious purposes, but keeping track so the original ISR would >> still run at 55 msec. > > That rings a bell, it is familiar. I did not do it, but maybe games used > it. There were a lot of fun things you could do. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminate-and-stay-resident_program