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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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