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From: mbb@cbnewsh.ATT.COM (martin.b.brilliant)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: V20 vs. 8088: Is there any useful difference?
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Date: 17 Jul 89 15:42:19 GMT
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From article <8673@attctc.DALLAS.TX.US>, by chasm@attctc.DALLAS.TX.US (Charles Marslett):
> In article <2305@deimos.cis.ksu.edu>, jfy@phobos.cis.ksu.edu (Joseph F. Young S89) writes:
>> the NEC V20 chip .....
> 
> VERY FEW programs will show a 10% improvement in speed -- expect a range of 2%
> to 10%.....

I replied by mail, but my comment might be of more general interest:

How do you know you have a v20?  The itemized bill for my XTurbo clone
says I have an 8088, but Norton SI says I have a V20.  If I hadn't run
SI, I wouldn't know I had a V20, and then if I replaced it with a V20,
I wouldn't get the spectacular imporovement other users say they get....

> ....  (here come 'de flames... here come 'de > flames)

Well, how about cold water?  :-)

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