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From: burleigh@silver.bacs.indiana.edu (frank burleigh)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: v20 chip
Message-ID: <2217@silver.bacs.indiana.edu>
Date: 3 Sep 88 18:53:56 GMT
References: <1821@akgua.ATT.COM> <4006@ritcsh.UUCP> <1988Sep1.163324.870@mntgfx.mentor.com>
Reply-To: burleigh@silver.UUCP (frank burleigh)
Organization: sociology, indiana university, bloomington
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In article <1988Sep1.163324.870@mntgfx.mentor.com> marva@mntgfx.mentor.com (Marv Allenbrand) writes:
>In article <4006@ritcsh.UUCP>, dani@ritcsh.UUCP (Dani Kadoch) writes:
>> 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? 
>>
>> I worked with an XT clone that had its 8088 replaced with a V20 and
>> had all sorts of trouble.
>> I also know there are incompatibilites with programs such as 
>> COPYWRIT and COPYIIPC.

[Marv writes that he has had no problems with a v20 in a 4.77/8MHz
machine, but improvements are pretty small.]

I had a v20 in my old IBM XT, which had been speeded up with a Fast88
card.  I never had any problems with the v20.  And especially on screen
updates and functions, I found a very definate improvement in
performance.

-- 
Frank Burleigh/ Dept. of Sociology/Indiana University, Bloomington, IN  47405
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