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From: peteru@tekig5.PEN.TEK.COM (Peter Uchytil)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: NEC v20/30
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Date: 7 Jul 89 20:15:07 GMT
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I just subscribed to this newsgroup, so I don't know if this has been
discussed recently, if so I appolagize.  I have a basic IBM PC and I
have been thinking for a while that I'd like more speed, but I have
very limited monetary resources.  The desire for speed has grown this
summer because they have given me a 386 machine to work on.  How can I
go back to the PC?  Somebody told me about the NEC v20 and v30 chips
that I could drop into my PC and get up to 8 MHz.  Much better than
old 4.77.  Are these chips really compatible?  Can I just yank out
the 8088 and drop this one in?  How about my 8087?  Is the v20/30
going to mess that up?  I had heard that the speed of the v20/30 is in
the math functions, so since I have an 8087, is it going to help?
Please, someone help!  I'm going to be doing lots of C compiling next
semester, so I'll take all the speed I can get.  Is there some other
*cheap* option I don't know about?  If you don't want to waste space,
email to me.  Thanks a LOT!

Pete
peteru@icarus.pen.tek.com