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In article <1991May6.130002.13774@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> byu@csri.toronto.edu (Benjamin Yu) writes:


   Can anyone give a brief description of benefits (if any) in upgrading
   a 4 MHz XT motherboard to a 12 MHz AT motherboard without changing
   the 8 bit hard/floppy disk controller and hard/floppy disk?  What is
   the net effect, say in running Pagemaker under Windows 3.0, in terms
   of actual speedup (again if any)?

   Thanks!

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   Benjamin Yu
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Can't answer about pagemaker, I can give you ideas otherwise.  I had
an old (real) ibm/pc with a hard disk installed.  I replaced the
motherboard with a new 12mhz 286.  I had to buy a new floppy disk
controller (it was the origional), a new herc card, and a new
keyboard.  The floppy controller was ~$60, the keyboard was ~$40, and
the new herc card was ~$40.  The floppy controller and the keyboard
were required to be replaced.  The herc card wasn't.  The herc card
worked ok at 6mhz but not at 12mhz.  Other than that the only other
trick was to tell the bios that I didn't have a hard disk and it works
fine.

bruce
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