Talk:NEC V20

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I have a computer (Multiterm Portable Office) of which Norton System Information states has a Nec V20 CPU running at 16MHz, while the article states the maximum speed is 12MHz. I'll change it to 16, but I don't know the specified maximum clock speed of the CPU. Rderijcke 23:00, 23 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Other emulators.

Sydex 22NICE is another emulator which can access the 8080 functions of the V20 and V30. 22NICE also emulates an 8080 on other x86 CPUs but at a substantial speed penalty on contemporary 1980's and early 1990's systems. Bizzybody (talk) 07:03, 12 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Division?

I upgraded my 8088 to a V-20 and it was faster. If I remember correctly, the V-20 had a hardware divide whereas the 8088 did not. Is that correct? If so, it can go in the article. Bubba73 ^{You talkin' to me?} 22:18, 28 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Faster than IBM 8088

My first real '88/'86 based PC was an IBM 5051 clone with a V20 in it. It was a full 0.33 MHz faster than IBM's 4.77 MHz 8088. I even ran Windows 2.0 on it.2A00:23C7:5998:C701:65C0:A8DD:B61:F70D (talk)

8087 Compatibility

"The V20 was reported to have been compatible with the Intel 8087 floating-point unit (FPU) coprocessor.[6]"

I can confirm that seems to be the case, back in the early '90s my first PC had a 10MHz (I think) V20 and an 8087 co-processor and the two appeared to function properly. SlySven (talk) 11:33, 8 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Removal of citation needed template

This article (except perhaps the variants section) seems to have adequate inline citations. If anything, maybe it should be moved to a section template in the variants section? The tag has been there for almost 10 years, and it seems better-cited than many other articles I've seen. I might be bold and go ahead and remove it -- if you disagree, we can continue the discussion here. MrAureliusR_Talk! 00:09, 12 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]