Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!mips!apple!snorkelwacker!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!news.funet.fi!funic!santra!santra!krisku From: krisku@niksula.hut.fi (Kai Henrik Risku) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware Subject: Re: AT or XT286? Message-ID: Date: 3 Oct 90 10:19:29 GMT References: <4459@bwdls58.UUCP> <1990Oct1.191119.22917@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> Sender: news@santra.uucp (Cnews - USENET news system) Distribution: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland Lines: 20 In-Reply-To: draper@cpsin2.cps.msu.edu's message of 1 Oct 90 19:11:19 GMT > Performance wise, the XT286 is between the 6 and 8 Mhz AT models, but > the hard disk is the worst I've ever heard of. Mine can do only 95msec > average random seek. According to some testprogram (I don't remember which) the average random seek time was about 65 ms for my XT286. Other testprograms reported the CPU speed to be about 8 Mhz. > As far as I know, any 286 software will run on the XT 286. I agree fully with that. -- +---------------------------------------------+ | Kai Risku - ( krisku@niksula.hut.fi ) | +---------------------------------------------+ | The only thing that is better than a | | pizza is of course two pieces of pizza. | +---------------------------------------------+