Henry Nelson <henry@irm.nara.kindai.ac.jp> writes:

>I've got an old but trusty machine.  It's got 48MB of 70ns memory
>and one of the early 60MHz pentiums.  Nearly everything works fast
>enough, but loading even the smallest of documents into "vi" takes
>the most irritating amount of time.  (A 14MB 80ns memory/486DX2

how long is a "most irritating amount of time" circa?
If it's longer than 3-4 seconds it really is irritating since
it takes that long to startup on my old vaxstation (vs3100/m30).
Does "eval `/usr/bin/tset -sQ`" make any difference?

mkb