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From: ralphs@halcyon.wa.com (Ralph Sims)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Speeding up
Message-ID: <a0u1N4w162w@halcyon.wa.com>
Date: 17 Aug 90 00:30:21 GMT
References: <w7XXN1w162w@ijpc.UUCP>
Organization: The 23:00 News
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ianj@ijpc.UUCP (Ian Justman) writes:

> Is there any way of speeding up an older 4.77MHz XT-class system short of
> getting another motherboard, an accelerator card, or other what-not?  I would
> appreciate any input.

You could add a fairly inexpensive what-not: A V20 chip to replace the
8088 that's in there.

Also, here's a little snippet to add a 1/10th of an SI or so.  Run this
through debug.  Call it something and then debug <something

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Someone may be able to disassemble this and compact it a bit.

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