Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!brl-tgr!tgr!augenbra@udel-louie.ARPA From: augenbra@udel-louie.ARPA Newsgroups: net.micro Subject: 8 Mhz 8088 vs. IBM-AT on real work Message-ID: <11204@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Fri, 31-May-85 23:28:28 EDT Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.11204 Posted: Fri May 31 23:28:28 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 1-Jun-85 14:36:36 EDT Sender: news@brl-tgr.ARPA Lines: 8 I have not used the 8 Mhz Z-100, but have had a lot of experience with wordstar and epsilon (and other more useful things) on both an 8 Mhz Sperry, and the stock 6 Mhz IBM PC-AT. The screen update, and the times that it takes to do things like move a block of text (in memory, no disk access) is very noticeably faster on the AT. So there. Joe