Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen From: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Ami Bios and the V20 Message-ID: <1645@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> Date: 17 Nov 89 20:20:09 GMT References: <6129@merlin.usc.edu> <206900136@prism> <2851@phred.UUCP> Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen) Organization: GE Corp R&D Center, Schenectady NY Lines: 18 In article <2851@phred.UUCP> brianr@phred.UUCP (Brian Reese) writes: | I do agree with you that the SI is rather unrealistic, for the reasons you | cited. I'm just offering my hands-ons, personal expirience. | | Anyone else out there with V20's? I found that the one program which justified buying a V20 did run much faster. That's good, because I don't notice anything else running better. I did measure a few programs, but the change was 10-15% faster, not enough to really notice. Then I got a 386... that I notice. -- bill davidsen (davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen) "The world is filled with fools. They blindly follow their so-called 'reason' in the face of the church and common sense. Any fool can see that the world is flat!" - anon