"Turbo"

[Garth Wilson]

Quote:switching the capacitor on the HP41CV like i did to double the speed is called a "Turbo 41CV"

Using the 41/71 Translator Pac to run 41 pgms on the 71 at 5X the speed is called the "41 Twin Turbo", etc.

There are rumors the 41CL is even faster ht the 71 with the translator pac.

Besides the hardware, efficiency in software (something I know is old-fashioned) is important, and Ángel and others here have helped tremendously in that way with M-code solutions that are far faster than what we had years ago. The 71's Forth mdule was very poorly done, and I was able to dramatically speed up many of the functions by re-defining them, in Forth, not even in assembly, the most extreme example being CHR$ at 14 times as fast as the original.