Nice.. I've apparently gravitated myself to the fastest of the lot naturally..

Side note: was supervising some kid who absolutely couldn't believe that the reason his 'workstation was locking up' was that he was catting giant logfiles in a second pane of his single-process gnome terminal.. I told him to use Xterm or something else, since they spawned one process per window, and he tried for a while, but went back, and continued to complain, because just couldn't believe that the terminal could get bogged down, and further, missed his pretty anti-aliased fonts.

Sigh.