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James Miller wrote:
> 
> Well, Sylpheed is looking like not a real good choice
> for the 486 class under discussion.  It does work, and has 
> nice graphics, even in this 16 color display. While typing 
> though, the active line flashes - disappears momentarily 
> when you make a keyboard stroke.  

Part of the problem could be the VGA16 Xserver (you are
using the VGA16 server, aren't you?).  It is particularly
slow for that sort of thing.

> During typing, the CPU meter can reach the halfway point
> and higher. 

That's no good.

> it was almost intolerable.  It couldn't keep up with my typing, 
> and I'm not a very fast typist.  

OK, Netscape 3.04 is looking better and better.  It seems to 
me that the best option for graphical browsing and mail on a 
468 (16mb RAM) is BL1 and Netscape 3.04.

> That's my preliminary report on Sylpheed.

Thank you.  That was very helpful.

Cheers,
Steven