Those old TURBO buttons on PCs actually slowed your computer down

Well, I feel stupid! This is all news to me! I remember growing up with several PCs that had a TURBO button on the case and I would always push it thinking that it was speeding up my computer. It turns out, that for a majority of those computers, the TURBO button actually slowed down the computer so that certain programs or games would run at slower clock speeds and not be entirely unusable. Talk about the power of deceptive labeling! I honestly thought my computer was going faster!