really slow suse 8.0

I can't believe how slow SuSE 8.0 is. To print out an email is 1 minute 20 seconds until the printer starts. To boot up is around 5 minutes. I have a Pentium 166 and 64 MB ram, which may be kind of minimal, but this is ridiculous. Version 7.1 did not do this. I set up ver 8.0 Pro with EXT3 on a SCSI drive of its own. I'm running that now, as I write this. I have never seen anything this slow and unreponsive. If anyone has a clue, please pass it on. --doug