From: Sammy Mitchell 
Sjoerd W. Rienstra[SMTP:sjoerdr@win.tue.nl] wrote:
> 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.
Can you tell if this is primarily a keyboard speed issue, a display issue,
or both?
I assume you are running win95?  Do you have access to windows NT to test it
on that?
Have you tried it both full-screen and windowed?  25x80 mode?
> 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 
really
> 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...............
It is the os that is multitasking, not the editor.  While I would like to
have multiple threads in the editor (for loading files, sorting, and maybe
long-running macros), currently the editor runs in a single thread.
Sammy
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