Now you are complaining that they don't want to destroy their own industry with cars made by cheaper work force and heavily subsided by Chinese government.
Actually you used it correctly. The slowdown to 8086 speeds was applied when the button was unpressed.
When the button was pressed the CPU operated at its normal speed.
On some computers it was possible to wire the button to act in reverse (many people did not like having the button be "on" all the time, as they did not use any 8086 apps), but that was unusual. I believe that's was the case with OPs computer.
I think Trump does show some ADHD like behavior too, again I'm not a professional, but I think the problem for people with ADHD is that they forget where they came from, and Trump does seem to be able to get back to that.
You guys are missing a fundamental point. The copyright was created to protect an author for specific amount of time so somebody else doesn't profit from their work essentially stealing their deserved revenue.
I hope the mailman won't have any problems returning.