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From: kens@ISM780.UUCP
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Subject: V20 Over-hyped
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Date: Mon, 28-Oct-85 21:35:00 EST
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Posted: Mon Oct 28 21:35:00 1985
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Nf-From: ISM780!kens    Oct 28 21:35:00 1985


My experience with the V20 is that it speeds things up about
4-7%.  It's nice to have the 186 instruction set if you're an
assembly language programmer, and may come in handy if you have a
CP/M fetish or other sad perversion, but don't anybody believe
the "10-40%" nonsense that you see bandied about in the ads.  I
just put my V20 in and here are some preliminary informal results
with my 320k/10mb XT:

					8088        V20
    Recalculate 256x27 spreadsheet      10.1sec     9.4sec
      (SuperCalc 3 rel 2.1)

    825 Line Turbo compile from disk    13.6sec    12.8 sec

    Lattice Compile (drystone.c)      1:14       1:09

    MASM 1.25 ~1200 lines               58.7        55.5

Non-scientific, but indicative that the speedup is pretty
negligible.

However, what can you expect for $16? And it does seem to work without
glitches on everything I've tried so far.

Ken Sarno
INTERACTIVE Systems Corp.
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