Subject: Re: Linux/NetBSD speed comparison.
To: Eric.Melville (Exchange) <Eric.Melville@target.com>
From: Ted Lemon <mellon@nominum.com>
List: port-alpha
Date: 07/18/2000 10:53:59 
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_