The PC case with Turbo button was originally 486-DX, but there was no place on the new K6 motherboard to plug it into.
pelya
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People are boasting about Arch, but my first open-source OS was FreeBSD 4.2, fitting on a single CD-ROM.
It included a tiny base system and C compiler, and practically every other package had to be compiled from source, using theportssystem, which was just a collection of makefiles, one for each package.
And you had to be careful to usegmakeinstead ofmake, because the default Make was BSD-specific tool incompatible with most of open-source software, which targeted Linux. And you had to make sure to use GNU versions of grep, sed, and awk, and remove all bashisms from shell scripts, because/bin/shwas of course incompatible withbash.
You had only about 50% chance that a given package would compile. Package manager? What package manager? Just runsuand thenmake install.
And my PC was AMD K6, and it had Turbo button, which did absolutely nothing. And I was very proud of my TEAC CD drive.
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Programmer Humor@programming.dev•why hard exit editor? Nano say at bottom.
432·7 days agoI remember the time when Linux jokes were about audio drivers and X11 config files, but audio has long been working out of the box, and X11 is already dead and cremated.
Even recompiling kernel now takes around five minutes instead of two hours, so that joke is irrelevant too.
So all we are left with is timeless discussion of which text editor is the best, and dumping on Windows.

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