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From: jmoore@opus.UUCP (Jim Moore)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re:  VT100 and bagbiting
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Date: Thu, 28-Jun-84 10:42:33 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jun 28 10:42:33 1984
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I think that a terminal should be able to keep up with a 
9.6 data stream for simple ascii text display, but it
was a very bad decision to use ^S (XOFF) as a special character
in emacs. XON/XOFF flow control is the closest thing to a
universal standard protocol existing for serial lines.