Re: LZ: optimizing zshell programs for turbo calcs
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Re: LZ: optimizing zshell programs for turbo calcs
On Mon, 4 Sep 1995, becker wrote:
> Matt Hayden wrote:
> >
> > >I guess it's no fun to have a calculator that can give you a faster
> > >computation during a test and in turn more time to work on it, huh?
> > Turboing is
> > >legitimate and so is optimizing zshell programs for it.
> >
> > But a whole lot of people, including me, A.) Have no real reason to turbo
> > the calculator, B.) See no point in turboing it, and C.) Don't want to take
> > the risk of shortening the life of the calculator. Because, I believe, it
> > has been proven that turboing the calculator shortens the life.
> >
> > -=Sponge=-
> > ------------------------------------------------------------
> > Matt Hayden
> > mhayden@poboxes.com
> I'm afriad you're mistaken, turboing the calc with a 1pf capacitor has
> most certainly _NOT_ been proven to shorten the life of the processor.
> Most people who have turboed with this method and later documented their
> methods, have said that they have been using it for 2 or more years, and
> had no problems at all. What does wear out the processor
> (theoretically) is turboing it by removing the capacitor and leaving no
> capacitor in it's place.
>
Leaving no capacitor in it's place would result in a clock speed of 0mhz.
I suggest you read some books before you pursue this further.
dreamer
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