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Article #8124Re: NEC V20 How to How to USE?
From: James Akiyama
Date: Wed, 01 Oct 1986 20:14
Date: Wed, 01 Oct 1986 20:14
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The problem may be in the BIOS. I believe that many PC's use software timing loops to determine system timeouts (e.g. waiting for the disk drive to return seek complete). These prevent the PC from becoming hung if a disk drive is bad but are clock speed sensitive.
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