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From: nsb@THUMPER.BELLCORE.COM (Nathaniel Borenstein)
Newsgroups: comp.soft-sys.andrew
Subject: Re: messages/vui speeds
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Date: 22 Sep 89 15:27:41 GMT
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I'm sure the big problem is simply memory; if you run vui, you use only a
fraction of the memory you use by running Messages.  On a 4 MB machine,
Messages pages like crazy, which makes it slow, whereas vui can run with little
or no paging, especially if you're not even running X at all.  On the other
hand, if you run on a machine with enough memory, vui and messages run at about
the same speed.  -- NB