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- From: istuart@nyx.cs.du.edu (Ian Stuart)
- Subject: Re: IBM XT upgrade
- Message-ID: <1993Jan3.144052.13547@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- Date: Sun, 3 Jan 93 14:40:52 GMT
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- In article <50921@shamash.cdc.com> 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)
- >
- >Any other ideas?
-
- With only 10Mb of disk space, DOS5 is going to be tight. RAM is going to
- limit NANSI, disk cache and all the best bits of DOS5.
- Probably the best thing to do is do a fund-raise for about $500, and buy a
- 'cheap' 286.
- Unfortunatly there is no way to make any real improvements to an XT,
- without spending enough money to buy another computer.
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- --- Kiz (aka Ian Stuart) istuart@nyx.cs.du.edu
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