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From: labach@herald.usask.ca (Terry Labach)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Speeding up an XT
Message-ID: <1990Oct17.043104.29870@herald.usask.ca>
Date: 17 Oct 90 04:31:04 GMT
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In article <1990Oct16.161726.1457@thyme.jpl.nasa.gov> kaleb@thyme.jpl.nasa.gov (Kaleb Keithley	) writes:
>A $25 solution is to suck the 8088 out and plug a V20 in.  That will
>double your speed according to Norton's SI, and may be sufficient for
>some peoples needs; if you're using the XT just for word processing, say.

Unfortunately, Norton's SI, as has been pointed out many times, is the
least useful of the Norton Utilities.  My experience with the V20 is a
5-10% speed increase in computationally heavy tasks - not noticeable
during your average word processing application.

Mind you, it is a speed up, and for tinkerers like myself, it's
enjoyable to get as much performance from the oldest hardware
possible.  If I want to do _real_ work, I use the UNIX box at work. :-)

Terry
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