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From: timothym@tekigm2.UUCP (Timothy D Margeson)
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: Re: V20 Over-hyped
Message-ID: <279@tekigm2.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 23-Nov-85 04:16:55 EST
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Posted: Sat Nov 23 04:16:55 1985
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Reply-To: timothym@tekigm2 D Margeson.UUCP (Timothy D Margeson)
Organization: Tektronix, Beaverton OR
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Hi,

About the NEC V20 and V30 chips... I have a Compaq Deskpro computer in which
I installed a V30 (the standard device is an 8Mhz 8086). The time/benchmarks
I ran indicated an average improvement of 8%. No this is not an astonishing
improvement, however an improvement I could not test, nor did I expect, was
the increase in speed when accessing the display adaptor. 

When my machine updates then screen in Turbo Pascal, Framework, Multimate or
even Crosstalk, I've gained at least 30%, probably more in efficiency. What
this relates to is when you are pageing through files in an editor, you are
not waiting for the screen to update nearly as much as with the 808X family.

I also put a V20 into my brothers PCjr. With Turbo Pascal, and IBM's Display
Writer editors, similar, if not better results were obtained. If you have a
PCjr, put a V20 in it, it will be worth it!

By the way, in neither case has there been any sign of incompatibilities. And
I feel Framework II (with SuperLOK copy protection) is as good a test as any.

Hope someone reading this finds it of interest.

-- 
Tim Margeson (206)253-5240
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