Re: [SURVPC] Replace 8088 with NEC V20

1999-03-08 Thread Chad A. Fernandez
On 1999-03-07 [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I used to have a xt with the V-20 runing at 12 Mhz. This chip had a superset of 8088 instructions. It was said that it improved performance by up to 30% because it did high speed address calculations in its internal hardware. I wonder if I should

Re: [SURVPC] why a surv. PC?

1999-03-08 Thread Ole Juul
Stephen Lloyd wrote: oh, and btw: if I were you I wouldn't go bothering big multi-trilion dollar companies to get their programs to work in dos, probably the best you could do is to try and get them to develop their programs to run in a dos box under win32. Check out the

Re: [SURVPC] new box?

1999-03-08 Thread Ole Juul
Pete wrote: Well, OK, here it is: The mother board is a card that plugs into a slot board fixed to the bottom of the zenith's case. The slot board has eight slots on it, three of them are system slots, meaning you can't plug in ISA cards in to them. Ah, OK. That is not a mother

Re: [SURVPC] why a surv. PC?

1999-03-08 Thread Or Botton
On 7 Mar 99 at 19:13, Bjorn Simonsen wrote: Keep in mind though, that if people where not so anxious to upgrade and buy the latest hardware, you would not be able to find all the free parts you say you do g I guess that it only gives yet another proof that everything bad also got a good

Re: [SURVPC] DeFrag with LFN dir support

1999-03-08 Thread Or Botton
On 8 Mar 99 at 6:33, Stephen Lloyd wrote: What would the hebru directorys and filenames look like from the dos level? You'll still see the correct hebrew ASCII from DOS, but backword, and with the all time famous ~1 LFN sign. Some programs like Norton Commander (DOS) cant even access these

[SURVPC] 4 D price of a SURVPC...

1999-03-08 Thread Peter Torrano
Akhem! Guess what I saw on the back of my Sunday Newspaper?? The FOLLOWING: ^^ $599 after $100 rebate, will buy you the following: AMD-K6 II 333Mhz Processor (Privacy compliant) (No Big Brother Inside) 64MBRAM 6.4GHD 32XCDROM 56K Modem 16bit Sound Winders 98, M$ Woiks,

Re: [SURVPC] Replace 8088 with NEC V20

1999-03-08 Thread Peter Torrano
On Sun, 7 Mar 1999, Will Baldwin wrote: My Tandy 1000HX, which is an XT-class machine, originally had an 8088-2 cpu, capable of either 4.77 or 7.16 Mhz. I had heard that if I replaced the chip with a NEC V20, I would get faster speed. I did that, and it worked. The V20 runs at the same

Re: [SURVPC] PCI bus for 486' = Thanks

1999-03-08 Thread John Oram
Dave: Thanks for the help. Very useful info. I got the email while out of town, I was able to ask questions, and knew what to expect for an answer. John O To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer

Re: [SURVPC] Replace 8088 with NEC V20

1999-03-08 Thread Per Backman
** Reply to note from SurvPC Discussion List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon, 8 Mar 1999 04:27:12 -0800 I just received some information on CP/M from someone. In case it's useful to you, here is a quote from that message. - Start quote: -- 1. the Unofficial CP/M

Re: [SURVPC] why a surv. PC?

1999-03-08 Thread hammer
Bjorn wrote: Keep in mind though, that if people where not so anxious to upgrade and buy the latest hardware, you would not be able to find all the free parts you say you do g Sure I grinned too. But nevertheless I do not share the analysis: There's a fundamentally destructive process