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From: elt@entire.UUCP (Edward L. Taychert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: v20 chip
Summary: Its worth the gamble
Message-ID: <3249@entire.UUCP>
Date: 25 Aug 88 01:18:46 GMT
References: <1821@akgua.ATT.COM>
Organization: Entire Inc, East Rochester, NY
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In article <1821@akgua.ATT.COM>, brb@akgua.ATT.COM (Brian R. Bainter) writes:
> I have been contemplating the possibility of replacing my 8088 in
> my XT clone with a V20 chip. Has anyone had any experience with
> this chip? If so, what is the performance, compatibility, and/or
> problems/good points of this chip? In other words I would like a
> general opinion so I can make an intelligent evaluation.
> 
> Thanks,
> -- 
> 	Brian R. Bainter   KA7TXA
> 
>  AT&T Technologies Atlanta Works
>  {cbosgd, gatech, ihnp4, moss, mtune, ulysses}akgua!brb

We're talking about 8 or 10 buck's rght? Buy it. My first PC clone was
from suntronics. their bios ran fligh simulator and every thing else I
ever tried. WHen I put the V20 in, it ran fine until the screen scrolled
up the first line! Then it hung! Repeatedly. I relaced the 8088 and 
everything was fine. I all subsequent PC clones, the V20 worked fine.
The biggest speed up seemed to be during the power-on memory check.
Despite the claims, don't expect a lot overall. For example,
compiling 30K of source, exlapsed time was only reduced 10%. Still, the
ole PC is so slow, its worth it. Think of it as a percent per buck.
(Now if they only had a kilo-buck version .... :-)

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