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From: kdq@demott.COM (Kevin D. Quitt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Speeding up an XT
Message-ID: <808@demott.COM>
Date: 20 Oct 90 16:23:57 GMT
References: <1538@ftc.framentec.fr>
Reply-To: kdq@demott.COM (Kevin D. Quitt)
Organization: DeMott Electronics Co., Van Nuys CA
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In article <1538@ftc.framentec.fr> ndoduc@framentec.fr (Nhuan Doduc) writes:
>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
>> 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

    In my case, the code is table driven, so the CPU spends most of its time
traversing said tables, rather than number crunching; the speed increase of
the V20 is about 50%.  In another case, an 8MHz V30 is actually 20% faster
than a 10MHz 8086.
 
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