Pete,
>I think you might be confusing the NEC V20 with the V30.
>
>V20 was the NEC upgrade for the 8088 and the V30 was the 16bit upgrade to
>the 8086. No? Just my recollection.
I'm not sure myself... But my Amstrad PC1000s both use V30s at 12MHz (at least,
they did last time I took the top off... maybe the leprechauns changed them
for a pair of 4004s judging by the sudden decline in speed - I think I mucked
up the interleave on the HDDs...), and are touted as '8086-compatible
machines'. Certainly, I've never seen a V20 in any machine. My Psion palmtop
(Series 3 - the Siena to be precise) uses a V30H at 4.77MHz (the H is a
low-power (I did remember the term, one of these TTL/CMOS acronyms) version -
it runs at 3 volts, draws maybe 5 mAh), which addresses 1Mb of RAM and runs a
16-bit multi-tasking OS.
Regards, Home page: http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Horizon/8786
Ben A L Jemmett ICQ: 9848866 JGSD e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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