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From: johnl@ima.ima.isc.com (John R. Levine)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: PC speeding uping
Message-ID: <3510@ima.ima.isc.com>
Date: 20 Mar 89 23:28:55 GMT
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Reply-To: johnl@ima.UUCP (John R. Levine)
Organization: Segue Software, Inc.
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In article <1248@igloo.Scum.COM> jeffery@igloo.UUCP (Jeffery E. Sheese) writes:
>>I want to speed up my 8086 based PC. ...
>What you want to do is purchase a Zilog V20 processor. ...

Actually, it's not made by Zilog, it's made by NEC.  The V20 replaces an 8088,
the V30 replaces an 8086.  Depending on who you ask, the speedup might be
5% or might be 30%.  The Norton SI program reports a huge speed improvement but
that's because SI mostly tests the speed of multiplication and division and
the V20 happens to speed that up quite a lot.
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