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From: hes@ecsvax.UUCP (Henry Schaffer)
Newsgroups: net.micro,net.micro.pc
Subject: Re: Has anyone seen the following advertisement?
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Date: Mon, 16-Dec-85 08:33:59 EST
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> I found the following ad. in local (Wash. D.C.) BBS.  I was wondering if
> anybody had heard of this. ...
> >No, this is no joke.  For $40, plus $1.50 s&h, you get your choice
> >of the  following, depending in what machine you have ...
> > - Fully 8088 compatible - Available in 5 or 8mhz speeds
> >These chips are full 8088/86 clones, except they have been highly
> >enhanced  internally, resulting in throughput enhancement from 5 to
> >100%. ...
> >For you techies, it has:
> >1) Dedicated effective address calc hardware ...
> praveen
   It sounds like the NEC V20 chip.  (I've lent out my spec sheet, so I
can't check the details.)  However, there is some hype in this ad - the
people I've talked to have reported gains mostly in the 5-15% range, and
they bought the chips for around $25.
--henry schaffer