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From: hjg@amms4.UUCP (Harry Gross)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: V20 vs. 8088: Is there any useful difference?
Message-ID: <603@amms4.UUCP>
Date: 26 Jul 89 17:03:57 GMT
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In article <8401@saturn.ucsc.edu> lance@helios.ucsc.edu (Lance Bresee) writes:
>
>
>I am curious...
>can a V30 or V40 be used to replace 
>   1: an 8088
>   2: an 8086

I don't know about the V30 or V40, but when I replaced my 8088 with the V20, I
saw a very real improvement in performance.

While on the topic - I have heard that there are additional instructions
present on the V20 - anyone know anything about them?

Cheers,
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