Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!ncar!tank!eecae!netnews.upenn.edu!eniac.seas.upenn.edu!silver From: silver@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Andy Silverman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: V20 compatibility with Intel (Was: Re: Is the XT dead?) Keywords: when we get _this_ far off topic, let's change the subject line. Message-ID: <15042@netnews.upenn.edu> Date: 3 Oct 89 17:20:10 GMT References: <25281C37.2028@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca> <6046@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM> Sender: news@netnews.upenn.edu Reply-To: silver@eniac.seas.upenn.edu.UUCP (Andy Silverman) Organization: University of Pennsylvania Lines: 16 In article <6046@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM> toma@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM (Tom Almy) writes: >The 8018x, Vx0, and 80286 offer about the same performance levels (at the >same clock speed) which is significantly above the 808x. You can't compare the V20 and the 80286 in execution speed. A V20 or V30 running at 8 MHz only gives you about 0.5 the processing power of an 80286 running at the same speed. And only for certain operations. The difference between the V20 and the 8088 is only REALLY noticeable for integer math operations. +-----------------------+-----------------------------------------+ | Andy Silverman | Internet: silver@eniac.seas.upenn.edu | | "All stressed out and | Compu$erve: 72261,531 | | nobody to choke." | | +-----------------------+-----------------------------------------+