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ck2yesterday at 8:55 PM1 replyview on HN

ha I remember that chip so well

instant speed boost for IBM PC

just pop out the 8088 and put in a $20 V20

only problems is some programs ran their clocks too fast

wow that article is amazing, I cannot believe people can reverse engineer at that level, brilliant


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tverbeureyesterday at 10:02 PM

What I remember of the V20 was that there was some benchmark (Norton?) that was way faster, but I never saw a difference for any real application that I tested.