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From: hmmm <hmmm@alaska.net>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: speed
Date: Fri, 02 Aug 1996 09:09:36 -0700
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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 ...