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Post #20,503
by nking
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12/6/01 2:31:05 PM
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New NEC V20
We used it in a BBS the community college ran. It seemed to run faster at 8Mhz and ran all the same BBS software and MS-DOS utilities that the BBS computer ran before on the 4.77Mhz 8088 chip. As I recall it was just a drop-in replacement for the 8088 that almost doubled your CPU speed.
Post #20,512
by a6l6e6x
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12/6/01 3:04:09 PM
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New Well, you would have had to change the crystal as well.
That's the kind of thing IBM made impossible in later machines. The power on diagnostics in the BIOS did a timimg run and would refuse to proceed is the speed was beyond the spec. That was to ensure IBM PC reliability, of course, and had nothing whatsoever to do with the availability of faster machines from IBM.
Alex
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction. -- Blaise Pascal (1623-1662)
     Intel and Rambus out to jointly screw the PC world - (tonytib) - (28) - Dec. 5, 2001, 11:41:29 AM EST
         Intel-free... - (inthane-chan) - (14) - Dec. 5, 2001, 01:47:58 PM EST
             Well, Intel is also litigation happy (e.g. suing VIA) - (tonytib) - Dec. 5, 2001, 03:44:05 PM EST
             MeToo (tm) come to think of it. - (Meerkat) - Dec. 5, 2001, 05:05:20 PM EST
             Never owned an Intel based PC - (Silverlock) - (11) - Dec. 5, 2001, 05:08:26 PM EST
                 You mean the NEC V20 chip, an improvement on Intel 8088? -NT - (a6l6e6x) - (10) - Dec. 5, 2001, 05:30:41 PM EST
                     Don't think so. - (Silverlock) - (7) - Dec. 6, 2001, 08:44:54 AM EST
                         Z10? Not Z80? - (broomberg) - (1) - Dec. 6, 2001, 09:24:38 AM EST
                             Am I sure? - (Silverlock) - Dec. 6, 2001, 09:47:54 AM EST
                         Well, the V20 was compatible with Intel 8088 used by IBM... - (a6l6e6x) - (4) - Dec. 6, 2001, 12:03:22 PM EST
                             Z80 - 8088 - (Andrew Grygus) - Dec. 6, 2001, 12:19:48 PM EST
                             Damn. I used to have a memory that worked. - (Silverlock) - Dec. 6, 2001, 12:28:15 PM EST
                             Sigh... - (inthane-chan) - (1) - Dec. 6, 2001, 01:03:32 PM EST
                                 Another machine from the earlier days... - (Another Scott) - Dec. 6, 2001, 02:24:39 PM EST
                     NEC V20 - (nking) - (1) - Dec. 6, 2001, 02:31:05 PM EST
                         Well, you would have had to change the crystal as well. - (a6l6e6x) - Dec. 6, 2001, 03:04:09 PM EST
         I thought Microsoft was...? - (static) - Dec. 6, 2001, 05:32:21 AM EST
         Since we're going all nostalgic - (wharris2) - (11) - Dec. 6, 2001, 08:01:36 PM EST
             I remember a rash of "upgradable" PCs. - (Andrew Grygus) - (9) - Dec. 7, 2001, 12:23:45 AM EST
                 Wasn't upgradable PC - (wharris2) - (8) - Dec. 7, 2001, 02:34:04 AM EST
                     I remember - (nking) - (7) - Dec. 7, 2001, 08:16:27 AM EST
                         It's been on-going - (wharris2) - (6) - Dec. 7, 2001, 12:08:50 PM EST
                             Tandy 1000 series - (nking) - (5) - Dec. 7, 2001, 04:18:18 PM EST
                                 History redux - (wharris2) - (4) - Dec. 7, 2001, 10:30:21 PM EST
                                     Is he selling any of them? - (nking) - (3) - Dec. 9, 2001, 09:01:26 PM EST
                                         That's not his purpose - (wharris2) - (2) - Dec. 10, 2001, 01:39:58 PM EST
                                             What is his purpose? - (nking) - (1) - Dec. 10, 2001, 10:42:07 PM EST
                                                 What's money? - (wharris2) - Dec. 11, 2001, 12:51:44 PM EST
             Similar - (hnick) - Dec. 7, 2001, 07:29:47 AM EST

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