Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!purdue!bu-cs!ngeow From: ngeow@bu-cs.BU.EDU (Yee Ngeow) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Is the XT dead? Message-ID: <39221@bu-cs.BU.EDU> Date: 29 Sep 89 17:14:44 GMT References: <1989Sep27.104957.24581@cs.dal.ca> <340006@hpsgpa.HP.COM> <2576@netcom.UUCP> Reply-To: ngeow@bucsd.bu.edu (Yee Ngeow) Followup-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc Organization: Boston University Lines: 12 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? Thanks in advance. ngeow@bu-cs.bu.edu engkdfc@buacca.bitnet