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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
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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.

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