> 
> The biggest speed difference I've noticed so far with Linux is that
> ptys are slow as molasses.   On NetBSD, my emacs shell window runs
> very fast, but on Linux, it seems like it only gets a few bytes at a
> time, and the throughput is probably no better than 38.4k baud.
> Skeery.
> 
> 			       _MelloN_

Try starting netscape twice though. linux blows netbsd away here. This
is probably all to do with having a dynamicly sized buffer cache.