World's Slowest CPU - on my Laptop!

[.jayderyu]

Just to join in the discussion about Wang size. My first computer was  TRS-80 Color Computer. That's right .895 mhz with 4kb ram, do I win yet? I upgraded about 2 weeks later to a Color Computer 3(CoCo). Which in comparison was signifigantly better at 1.79mhz and 128kb ram(CPU's have a bigger cache size these days). If you put that into perspective that I use to code Basic on this machine. That makes me a real geek/nerd.

If that isn't enough to win a title. How about this. The TRS-80 had an associate magazine.  oh how the times have changesdwhen a plethora of colours can be associated normally with a computer and now not. I only managed to collect a few.

After that(I still have my CoCo3), I got one of those 4.5mhz computers that was huge and an OLD chromatic(amber) metal monitor. I was about 10 having to lug that heavy thing around. At this time it came with IBM dos with a 5.4 floppy disk for the OS with NO HDD. Yep, HDD were optional.

Eventually got myself another computer Tandy 1000 RL. With memory upgrade :). Man I had some fun times on that thing. My first hand written games, art tools, I learned C++ on that thing :P. But that's now leaving slowest computer realm :P so I will stop now.

I feel old now. So to the OP. I assure you. You will solve your problem and it's not that bad a problem. Just keep it cool so it doesn't burn out.

 

EDIT: Turbo button. The Turbo button was designed to run some apps slower. These days we use clock timers and delta timers to maintain a certain speed. However way back then you wanted every piece of power so no timers were used. If you took a game like this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MechWarrior_(video_game) and ran it on todays PC. The fight would be over before you could press a key. I remember going back one to play this game on a pentium. The fight was over in about 10 seconds. So of course back then it was there for older app support.