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Subject: Re: Increasing the speed of IBM-XT.
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Date: Sat, 24-May-86 16:22:38 EDT
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> The V20 is usually a plug in replacement and very cost effective.
> [...]
> The  Norton SYSINFO program indicates a much larger performance increase
> with a V20 but it's a biased benchmark. For more details on  performance
> of a V20, see a recent issue of BYTE (the BIX listings section).

There is also an excellent 2-part article in Computer/Systems Journal from
two issues earlier this year (includes info on running in the 8080/8085
mode also).

My V30 upgrade on a Fujitsu u-16s machine (8086, 8 MHz replacement) has been
working flawlessly for about 9 mos.  Only problem was a PD program that was
highly dependent on s/w timing loops ... had to zap the binary to give the
loop counts bigger values.

/kim
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