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- From: slc@a2.cim.cdc.com (Steve Chesney x4662)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
- Subject: IBM XT upgrade
- Keywords: XT
- Message-ID: <50921@shamash.cdc.com>
- Date: 29 Dec 92 20:40:16 GMT
- Sender: usenet@shamash.cdc.com
- Reply-To: slc@a2.cim.cdc.com (Steve Chesney x4662)
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- At my wife's job (a church) she is obligated to use a vintage IBM XT with
- a 10 meg hard disk, color display and IBM PC-DOS 2.10.
- Since she is used to our 386, it seems slow to her. Are there any cheap and
- simple upgrades that we could try to alleviate this? I am considering:
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- upgrade to MS-DOS 5.0
- use of a console driver like NANSI
- use of a disk cache
- optimize the disk (with something PC TOols Optimize)
- check disk interleave and adjust (with SpinRite or PC Tools DiskFix)
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- Any other ideas?
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- Steve Chesney slc@a2.cim.cdc.com
- Control Data Corporation 612-482-4662 (voice)
- 4290 Fernwood Avenue 612-482-4001 (fax)
- Arden Hills, MN 55112
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