From: utzoo!decvax!decwrl!sun!megatest!fortune!hpda!hplabs!hao!cires!nbires!kimbo
Newsgroups: net.micro
Title: terminal emulators
Article-I.D.: nbires.136
Posted: Fri Apr 22 16:36:21 1983
Received: Sat Apr 30 01:15:02 1983

Has anyone tried the following approach for a terminal emulator to
be used with Unix:
Buffer the incoming characters in a buffer that is many (~10) times
larger than the number of characters on the screen.  Then do ^S/^Q
flow control if this buffer is in danger of overflowing.
The advantage I see to this approach is that screen editors would
not fill up this buffer, so no ^S/^Q's would be sent, but if you
cat'ed a file to the terminal, the buffer would not overflow.
Does this sound reasonable?  Send replies by mail.

		Kimbo B. Peebles-Mundy, NBI Inc.
		{allegra,ucbvax}!nbires!kimbo