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From: derrick@auvax.UUCP (Derrick Rowlandson)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs,comp.terminals
Subject: Re: Flow control and Emacs.
Message-ID: <258@auvax.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 26-Jun-87 15:01:48 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jun 26 15:01:48 1987
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Keywords: Terminals, Flow control
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In article <273@parsely.UUCP>, jim@parsely.UUCP (Jim Stapleton) writes:
>   So what makes the VT family worth buying?
> 
One thing making vt's undesirable is the unnecesarry lenght of their 
control codes, placing an extra burden on the I/O processors, and 
unibus's can be flaky when handling large amounts of I/O.
trouble is much software out there will only run on a vt type terminal.

derick