[geeks] Hmmm.. xterm versus Mac OS X Terminal.app

[Greg A. Woods]

[ On Wednesday, February 20, 2002 at 12:45:53 (-0800), Peter L. Wargo wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: [geeks] Hmmm.. xterm versus Mac OS X Terminal.app
>
> On Wed, 20 Feb 2002, Greg A. Woods wrote:
> 
> > [ On Wednesday, February 20, 2002 at 10:39:00 (+0000), David Cantrell wrote: ]
> > > Subject: Re: [geeks] Hmmm.. food for thought...
> > 
> > Meanwhile note that your experience with slowness opening terminal
> > windows under Mac OS X does not seem to mirror that of other people.
> > Something seems to be different about your install/hardware/whatever.
> 
> If he were the only one, I'd agree.  But it starts up much slower on my
> G4/500MP than my iBook/366.  It's the *only* app to do so.
> 
> Neither system is running anything bizarre - they are both pretty vanilla.
> IF you like, I will load OS X onto a spare partition on my drive and try
> it from a clean install.

All you've given is a stronger confirmation that something must be wrong
with the install/config/tuning of system where Terminal.app starts more
slowly.....

(assuming your iBook/366 has not only the slower CPU, but also a slower
disk and probably even less memory then your G4/500MP....)

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