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From: gpw@ihdev.UUCP (G. P. Wilkin)
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: Re: Using NEC V20 Chip With Microsoft Windows
Message-ID: <880@ihdev.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 12-Sep-86 18:57:16 EDT
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Posted: Fri Sep 12 18:57:16 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 13-Sep-86 21:18:15 EDT
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>         After I installed it I noticed that most stuff was  slightly
> 
>         Windows, especially Windows Write was a lot faster.  It  may
>         be  my  imagination,  but  the  scrolling  seemed to be much
>         faster.  Near as I could time it pgdn and pgup in Write were
>         about  1.6 to 1.7 seconds, which is no worse than editing on
>         my 9600 baud terminal at work.
> 	Also the screen seems to keep up with my typing much better.
>         I  suspect  that the cause may have something to do with the
>         Shift/Rotate/Mult/Div type instructions, which the V20  does
>         about  3  times  faster  than  the 8088.  If some of the low
> 
>      Joel Upchurch @ CONCURRENT Computer Corporation (A Perkin-Elmer Company)
>      {decvax!ucf-cs, ihnp4!pesnta, vax135!petsd, akgua!codas}!peora!joel

I too have noticed a very large increase in the speed of my terminal emulator.
I am running a AT&T 6300 with an NEC V30 chip instead of a v20. I find this 
well worth the 15$ I spent on it.

-- 
George Wilkin 	AT&T Network Systems, Naperville, IL 
		!ihnp4!ihdev!gpw  IH 4A-157  work 312-979-4317