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- From: jdg41088@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Pickaxe)
- Subject: Re: IBM XT upgrade
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- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 07:41:37 GMT
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- slc@a2.cim.cdc.com (Steve Chesney x4662) writes:
-
- >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:
-
- >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)
-
- No matter what you do, it'll still be an XT. Depending on how much memory it
- has, (I'm guessing not any more than a meg maximum) and how much memory the
- programs use, you may or may not have much success at the disk cache and other
- memory type solutions. I tried all of this on an old XT turbo that I was
- "blessed" with and it didn't seem to make that much of a difference. Either
- way, it still will never come close to comparing to the relatively blinding
- speed of a 386. But you work with what you got, so good luck.
-
- p.s. Remember when we got so excited about the intoduction of the 386. I'm just
- waiting until Cray comes out with a desktop model. :)
-
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