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From: d88-eli@nada.kth.se (Erik Liljencrantz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: V20 vs. 8088
Keywords: NEC V20 Intel 8088
Message-ID: <1316@draken.nada.kth.se>
Date: 18 Jul 89 10:21:32 GMT
Reply-To: d88-eli@nada.kth.se (Erik Liljencrantz)
Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
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I once had a XT (noname 4.77 MHz clone) which I upgraded with a V20. 
It worked fine. Norton SI (version 3.0 those days) gave index 1.6 with
V20 (1.0 without), but that didn't mean 60% increase of performance in
average applications...

At the assembly language level the V20 is much faster at
  MUL & DIV (at least 10 times faster!!!)
  Shiftinstructions (V20 contains a barrelshifter which is FAST)
  Memory moves (REP MOVSW moved more than twice as fast on my system)

Later on I replaced the V20 with a 8MHz 286 Turbo card (from Personal
Computer Support Group, PCSG), and that even outperformed some real 8MHz
AT systems...

Erik Liljencrantz        | "No silly quotes!"
d88-eli@nada.kth.se      |     Embraquel Tuta