In reply to Jon.

Jon,

From your comment it is unclear whether you are running SAS on your company "very very large brand new unix server" or "on a SAS institute server" or whether you are running commercial EG or learning eddition.

As I mentioned in my response to your prior comment, perceived SAS EG slowness has nothing to do with the EG itself or PC it is running on, but has everything to to do with the SAS server and network data exchange between client PC and SAS server.

I noticed that at many companies their firewall or other security measures (e.g. scans) substantially slow down data exchange between client PCs and servers. If that is the case it could be addressed with your IT department.
Unfortunately, I cannot troubleshoot your environment using this blog. I suggest you contact SAS Technical Support at support@sas.com, they will be able to sort thing out.

Best regards,
Leonid Batkhan