program response sluggish compared to Win98

[rich <rehartma@artsci.wustl.edu>]

Howdy all,

I've had a problem for a while in which my potato sytem seems to perform
relatively sluggishly - most noticably on Wordperfect. Example: While
WP8 under W98, I can hold the "page down" key  for 5 seconds, and when I
let go, the scroll immediately stops. Doing the same under linux,
however, would result in a minute-long scroll through several dozen
pages after the key was let go. Is there a keyboard buffer that I can
adjust or something, or does the problem lie elsewhere, or is linux WP8
just not as well-designed?

Thanks in advance,

Rico