From: "Sjoerd W. Rienstra" 
Just a small 'add' to Ross Boyd's comments:
I cannot agree more: 2.5 was so much faster and smoother than 2.8,
even after the personal repair I received from Semware, that I kept a copy
of 2.5 on the HD. Now I try to get used to the hick-ups and relatively 
slowness
of 2.8, to be able to take advantage of the better sides of 2.8. Yes, in 
general
I use 2.8 because it offers more than 2.5, but sure, I miss the directness 
and speed.
People who know say that the reason is, that 2.8 is really multi-tasking, 
while 
2.5 is "only" busy with its own, like any DOS-program. Fine for those people 
who
wants to do BIG calculations on the background, but in general my PC is 
eally
my 'personal' PC, and it happens very rarely that I'm doing two things at 
exactly the same
time. So why not some switchable option to turn this multitasking on or off ?
The multitasking is so less an advantage than speed...............
Sjoerd W. Rienstra                 |     sjoerdr@win.tue.nl
Dep. of Mathematics & Comp. Sc.    |     tel.: 040 - 247.4603/4760
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