Mark, it is my priviledge to chat with you.

 JP>         More like hesitation here, |\/|ark.

 ML> yes, that is normal on many machines with background processing going
 ML> on.

        I figured that it was normal. After all these loops have
  to be run and done and this CPU is only 1.2 MHz. I see this too,
  but slightly, on the Thinkpad that runs at 2.53 MHz. Shades of my
  Commodore days. That was quite evident there.

 ML> i see something similar on my OS/2 box, at times... i've traced it, in
 ML> most cases, to swapfile management (growing or shrinking the swapfile)

        I do not really know what swap-file is all about. My
  system here has 1 gig of RAM and maybe that explains it all. It
  runs at 30% of RAM used. Not much swapping going on.

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