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From: jamesa@dadla.UUCP (James Akiyama)
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: Re: NEC V20 How to How to USE?
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Date: Wed, 1-Oct-86 16:14:40 EDT
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The problem may be in the BIOS.  I believe that many PC's use software timing
loops to determine system timeouts (e.g. waiting for the disk drive to return
seek complete).  These prevent the PC from becoming hung if a disk drive is bad
but are clock speed sensitive.