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#! rnews 1169 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!metro!metro!asstdc.scgt.oz.au!nsw.news.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!reuter.cse.ogi.edu!cs.uoregon.edu!news.sgi.com!enews.sgi.com!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.texas.net!news.frontiernet.net!Empire.Net!nntp.alaska.net!usenet From: hmmm <hmmm@alaska.net> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: speed Date: Fri, 02 Aug 1996 09:09:36 -0700 Organization: Internet Alaska Inc. Lines: 10 Message-ID: <32022840.67B7@alaska.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: hmmm.alaska.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.02 (Win16; I) i run BSD on many diff computers, and on my 386/25's, it appears (esp w/MidnightCommander & ee) that FreeBSD is significantly slower than Linux running the same program with twice the VT's. does this make sense? any good reasons? w/MidnightCommander & ee, FreeBSD is so slow, that scrolling down the screen leaves garbage all over, ie, the screen, when it catches up, jumps many lines at a time, leaving old lines at the right margin of new text ...