From: utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!C70:editor-people Newsgroups: fa.editor-p Title: Re: ^S/^Q Article-I.D.: ucb.1356 Posted: Tue Jun 15 00:42:15 1982 Received: Wed Jun 16 03:48:02 1982 >From COMSAT.SoftArts@MIT-MULTICS Tue Jun 15 00:19:14 1982 Use of padding instead of ^S/^Q implies that the host can fully emulate the timings of an arbitrary complex terminal, across all versions of software releases for that terminal including all special cases and optimizations of the terminal and independent of any other processing (such as keyboard handling) that the terminal might do and through any networks that might be used and might have contention and provide optimal highly tuned performance for all this. While ^S/^Q is lousy, it is what we are stuck with for the moment.