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From: sbanner1@uvicctr.UUCP (S. John Banner)
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: Re: NEC V20 How to How to USE?
Message-ID: <188@uvicctr.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 17-Sep-86 18:06:30 EDT
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Posted: Wed Sep 17 18:06:30 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 20-Sep-86 03:52:46 EDT
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Reply-To: sbanner1@uvicctr.UUCP (S. John Banner)
Organization: University of Victoria, Victoria B.C. Canada
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In article <1500065@iuvax> bose@iuvax.UUCP writes:
>
>Can anyone give me the details of the NEC V20 chip stuff. I have an XT
>and would like to speed things up a little. Does the NEC chip have
>any incompatibility drawbacks?

   To use it, just pull out the 8088, and plug in the V20, and away you
go.  I had the job done about 4 months ago, and have had no problems
with it.  I have however heard of some incompatablility problems with
it, but these all occur when the software has internal timing loops,
instead of the Dos timer call (tut, tut, non-portable code).  The only
specific instance of this that I know of is LoadRunner (which doesn't
bother me, because it didn't run on my machine without the V20), though
I hear it also affects some other games, one or two HardDisk controlers,
and a few (very few) other things.

                      S. John Banner

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