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From: ndoduc@framentec.fr (Nhuan Doduc)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Speeding up an XT
Message-ID: <1538@ftc.framentec.fr>
Date: 19 Oct 90 18:35:12 GMT
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In <1990Oct17.043104.29870@herald.usask.ca> labach@herald.usask.ca (Terry Labach) writes:

>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

>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

I've better luck and succeded in milking out 20% for very heavy CP task, and
that for only 6.99 (+6%) us$ (why 25 ?). And if the task is CP and
floating-point too, then an 8087 is a must (perhaps 100us$ ?). However, this is
only valid for CP + FP tasks, not WordPerfect and so on ...

--nh
Nhuan DODUC, 
Framentec-Cognitech, Paris, France, ndoduc@framentec.fr or ndoduc@cognitech.fr,
Association Francaise des Utilisateurs d'Unix, France, doduc@afuu.fr