From: utzoo!decvax!cca!gwyn@Brl@sri-unix Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Title: Re: VT100/VT640 ^S/^Q and EMACS Article-I.D.: sri-unix.3236 Posted: Sat Sep 11 17:39:32 1982 Received: Mon Sep 13 01:51:32 1982 From: Doug GwynDate: 9 Sep 82 20:51:45-EDT (Thu) Probably the VAX isn't responding fast enough to the ^S because of using a silo polling technique on the DZ11 rather than character interrupts. I explained in an earlier Unix-Wizards note several reasons to not use the silo alarm + polling method in the dz driver; add this reason to the list.