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From: phil@brahms.amd.com (Phil Ngai)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Speeding up an XT
Message-ID: <1990Oct17.215731.23625@amd.com>
Date: 17 Oct 90 21:57:31 GMT
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In article <1990Oct16.161726.1457@thyme.jpl.nasa.gov> kaleb@thyme.jpl.nasa.gov (Kaleb Keithley	) writes:
|That's not exactly a $300 solution, because then you have to add RAM,

Yes, and you can sell your old mother. You can buy a megabyte for $50
these days.

|and probably will want to upgrade you HD controller.  When I did this
|the performance on my 8-bit controller went into the toilet.  $300 for

Did your HD system SLOW down, or were you just dissatisfied that it
didn't increase as much as you wanted. Did you try changing the
interleave? The 386 should be able to support a faster interleave.

|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.

You get what you pay for.

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