Stern Modifications

Ah yes, using programs like "doublespace" to increase HD capacity, same time pc's still had a "turbo" button

Stern wrote: Something useful not for game but for computer:

Temp cleaner

Can be used to keep TEMP folder clean, i have used it for long long time.
It was more useful when disc space was low (in my first computer, i had 2 GB hard drive ), now when u have HDD of 1000GB it doesnt matter, but who knows.


*Works on Win98, WinXP, Win7

Ah yes, the famous "turbo" button

I remember, on our LISP systems running with MS-DOS, we had two major variables managing the computer memory, called "lispheap" and "lispstack", and that we had to fine tune, depending of the work to be done...

Sometimes, it was really a nice party... Maybe some lads here know this story ?

I never had turbo button but what did happen when this button was applied permanently ? Boom and smoke ?

Sometimes, who knows ? Sometimes also, it was only cosmetics, because the button was not even plugged on the motherboard

In fact, at these times, it was very much efficient to add an arithmetic co-processor (80286 + 80287 or 80386 + 80387), better than any fictious "turbo" mode

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbo_button

of course if you had such a button (and it was connected) you would always leave it on, why the hell would you want your computer to slow down?
My first PC was a 386, later a 486 SX and later a 486 DX which, like Nikita said, had an integrated FPU. After that a pentium CPU running at a whopping 75 MHz if I remember correctly

Today, of course, things are pretty much modern...