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From: GUBBINS@radc-tops20.arpa (Gern)
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Subject: Re: Has anyone seen the following advertisement?
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Date: Mon, 16-Dec-85 10:41:27 EST
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It is the NEC V20/V30 8088/8086 clone that uses an 80188/80186 address
architecture and extra instructions.   Please refer to severl issues over
the past 4 months on INFO-IBMPC and INFO-HZ100.   My advice:  Don't use
it!   It is not 'quite' compatible, is CMOS (may not have the drive
capability for some unusual non-standard designs), requires a different
duty cycle clock (hardware incompatable), and tends to make several machines
and software crash at the worst possible times (a 'gotcha').  Actual user
benchmarks indicate that the speed increase is around 3-6% (which is 
trivial) and makes it not worth all the other risks.   Not to mention
Intel is suing them for hardware piracy on stealing the 8088/8086 and
again for the V20/V30.

Cheers,
Gern
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