Why “turbo” is being discussed
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It's almost entirely about screen resolutions. In the Turbo Pascal era the screen probably had 640x480 pixels or 307,200 pixels in total. The screen I'm looking at now is 5120x2…
by mike_hearn · Nov 8, 2026
Not sure it's fair to say they made then unergonomic in some deliberate or neglectful way. Just that Turbo Pascal was a remarkable program. From the article: > If there had been…
by quaffcode · Nov 8, 2026
Keep in mind that a traditional 100 amp service for the house can theoretically provide 100 amps * 240 volts == 24,000 watts == 24 kilowatts, instantaneously. You multiply by 24…
by bradknowles · Nov 8, 2026
3 points by timonoko 85 days ago | parent | context | next [–] | on: Turbo Pascal on CP/M, MSX-DOS and MS-DOS I wrote Pascal for 8080 in 1976 and Finnish Army even paid som…
by timonoko · Nov 8, 2026
Turbo Pascal and Broland Pascal .. the memories - we used to compete in the demo scenes in Scandinavia back in the day, and even though most of our hot paths where assembly and…
by icanhasjonas · Nov 8, 2026
So there's a common dichotomy in software engineering between the "big ball of mud" and "beautiful diamond" patterns. A big ball of mud is a software system that grows through a…
by nostrademons · Nov 8, 2026
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In an internal combustion engine, a turbocharger is a forced induction device that compresses the intake air, forcing more air into the engine in order to produce more power for a given displacement. Read more on Wikipedia