Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ginosko!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!apple!bionet!sdsu!crash!pnet01!jca From: jca@pnet01.cts.com (John C. Archambeau) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Is the XT dead? Message-ID: <454@crash.cts.com> Date: 30 Sep 89 22:56:24 GMT Sender: root@crash.cts.com Organization: People-Net [pnet01], El Cajon CA Lines: 22 ngeow@bu-cs.BU.EDU (Yee Ngeow) writes: >If you think XT's are slow, upgrade your CPU to NEC V-20. I just upgraded >mine yesterday, and ran various benchmarks on it. Performance improvement >is pretty impressive, ranging from 10% - 80% speedup. For $10 or less, >you can't beat the deal. > >Does anybody know if the V20 is compatible with 80186 instructions, using >the Turbo C Compiler options for 80186/286 instructions? Yes, it is. The V20/30 instruction set is a superset of the 80186 instruction set. So you can compile to 186/286 code with a V20/30. /*--------------------------------------------------------------------------* * Flames: /dev/null (on my Minix partition) *--------------------------------------------------------------------------* * ARPA : crash!pnet01!jca@nosc.mil * INET : jca@pnet01.cts.com * UUCP : {nosc ucsd hplabs!hd-sdd}!crash!pnet01!jca *--------------------------------------------------------------------------* * Note : My opinions are that...mine. My boss doesn't pay me enough to * speak in the best interests of the company (yet). *--------------------------------------------------------------------------*/