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Students' Guide to Information Technology, 2nd Edition
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Students' Guide to Information Technology, 2nd Edition

by Roger Carter
May 2014
Beginner content levelBeginner
266 pages
11h 32m
English
Newnes
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Computers
of the other components. So replacing an 8086 processor in an old
PC by an 80386 processor does not mean that the PC will be able to
run at 20 or
25
MHz.
The original IBM PC with its 8086 chip supported a clock speed
of 4.77 MHz. To execute the average instruction required about 15
clock cycles, so its processing speed was 0.3
MIPS.
The latest PCs
using the 80486 chip have clock speeds of 30 or 35 MHz and execute
an instruction in just over 2 clock cycles, giving a processing speed
of around
15
MIPS.
The i860 RISC chip has a clock speed of around
40 MHz and executes about 1 instruction per clock cycle, giving a
processing speed o
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