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From: Ralf.Brown@B.GP.CS.CMU.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Speeding up old PC's
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Date: 30 Sep 88 12:55:09 GMT
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In article <7700074@osiris.cso.uiuc.edu>, hoctor@osiris.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
}Given the age and ram speed of those old PCs (& XTs), do not use any
}speedup device that will increase the speed of the motherboard!!!!

The RAM speed is the least of your worries.  An original 4.77 MHz PC or XT
would run just fine with 400 ns (not a typo--FOUR HUNDRED nanoseconds) memory
chips, if any existed.  The usual 200 ns chips would be fine up to 10 MHz.
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