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Paul Bodin kindly reminds me of the fact that (of course) NB is a text
editor and not a graphics editor (like Ami Pro, etc.): sorry that my
question seemed to imply that. I was referring to the possibility of
switching between several "Symbol sets", one with italics on screen
(which is hardly pure text mode I suppose) and 8 colors instead of 16,
and the fact that --unlike in NB3-- when one switches out to DOS and
comes back, one sees the fast message "resetting video..." flashing
by, which also seems to suggest that some special "video" operation
is going on (which may have nothing to do with graphics --about which
I don't anything).

My only point is however: Is the new NB4 simply slower in text editing
itself, as one may see by doing e.g. simple typing, scrolling, etc. I
notice a marked difference on a 386 20 MH machine, and wondered whether
the larger program, different coding, different overlay structures, or
whatever other new goodies we now have, have made NB4 slower than NB3,
which would be a serious price to pay, since one of the major advantages
of NB over its competitors is its speed. Question: did anyone do some
objective "measuring" of NB speeds for some major operations? I have
noticed the difference most notably when typing up text and when arriving
at the bottom of the screen, when the text above must "move up": this
is very sluggish. Maybe all this is because I have tinkered so much
with NB.HLP, NBCUSTOM.SET, printer files, etc., that I have made a
mistake somewhere which slows down the system. However, my experience
is that if you make mistakes things don't work at all, or erratically,
and do not simply slow down. So, I would very much welcome some testing
of various operations by other NB4 users. Thanks a lot.

Teun A. van Dijk
University of Amsterdam
Program of Discourse Studies
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