On Sun, 7 Mar 1999 10:31:13 +500,
Will Baldwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>My Tandy 1000HX, which is an XT-class machine, originally had an
>8088-2 cpu, capable of either 4.77 or 7.16 Mhz. I had heard that if I
>replaced the chip with a NEC V20, I would get faster speed. I did
>that, and it worked. The V20 runs at the same Mhz, but instructions
>take fewer clock cycles, I've heard. Some instructions are faster
>than others.
I used to have a xt with the V-20 runing at 12 Mhz.
This chip had a superset of 8088 instructions. It was said that it
improved performance by up to 30% because it did high speed address
calculations in its internal hardware.
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