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I just upgraded to 3.0 (with a borrowed CD-ROM-player) and here are a
few observations on speed  and broken programs:
It seems to me that when the CD-ROM drive was mounted (I had
sym-linked some documentation to save disk space) startup of many
things was somewhat slower than in 2.1. When I unmounted the CD-ROM
drive, I had the impression of a speedup (anyone else seen this?). 

Emacs 18.55 is still broken: you cannot run scheme from it, and it
does not accept the newer tree-dired, and ange-ftp which depends on
it.  Given that NeXT got all the GNU freebies, they were MORALLY 
obliged to put a decent emacs on their system. My emacs 18.57 compiled
under 2.1 would not work either (dired -- which was dumped, not loaded
gave segmentation faults). I finally got a working 18.57 version from
a friendly person at Yale (since I did not have the time and
disk-space to rebuild). Instead of putting so much effort into clickable services
in Edit, NeXT should have made a useable emacs available!

One thing where there is a definite slow-down is in directory
listings; ls -alt |more takes its sweet time compared to the lightning
speed of ls -alt |more in 2.1 (again, can anyone confirm this?). 
I have a feeling that the ls command has been changed (which caused my
emacs to misbehave). 
The new TeX 3.141, and TeXview 3.0 are superb! They alone are worht
the cost of the upgrade (a bargain compared to PCTeX or TeXTures for
the Mac, and much faster and better). Kudos to Tom Rokicki!

Most other 2.1 applications seem to work fine, such as SLIP,
Schematik, Mathematica (which still produces huge swapfiles; can
anyone explain how to get the compressed swapping on a machine with
more than 12 MB of RAM? As I said, I don't have the on-line
documentation since I don't have the CD-ROM-player. 

Well, so much for the first 24 hours ...
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Hardy 
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Meinhard E. Mayer,  Department of Physics, UC Irvine 
e-mail: hardy@golem.ps.uci.edu (preferred) or MMAYER@UCI.BITNET