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From article <1993Jan8.182606.21215@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>, by hh7r@galen.med.Virginia.EDU (Hsiang-Hsin  Hsiung):

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> 
> 	I understand there are potential problems associated with the
> improvements on system performance. But, what are these problems? Does 
> anybody have experiments against the "significant" performance boost?
> Thanks.

Yes, the increase in the bus speed will increase the performance of
disk I/0, video etc. But for a truoble free operation at any speed
higher than 8Mhz (which is the standard ISA bus speed), you must also
need good quality hd/fd, video and other add on cards. All of your
cards should be rated and tested at the specified speed. Most cards
normally rated for 8mhz, but there are cards out there which are rated
at higher speed. Now, if you run a card beyond its rated capacity,
then it may or may not run. But most of the time most newer cards will
run at 10Mhz without any problems. The 12.5Mhz is little optimistic,
but if you are able to run at that speed then test throughly with
intensive disk I/O operations under different OS. I found that, 12.5
Mhz works fine as long as you are within native DOS, but it makes
troubles under Windows (normally the system hangup during disk I/O
operation). It also creats problems under OS/2 at 12.5Mhz. If you are
running X under Linux then you have to set the bus speed very close to
8Mhz (I was completely unable to run X under linux at 10 or 12.5Mhz)

So, the bus speed of 10Mhz is probably the best choice for DOS, Windows 
etc. If you want 12.5Mhz then, test throughly before settle down.

-Faruque
faruque@sun.soe.clarkson.edu