Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!columbia!rutgers!ames!oliveb!sun!gorodish!guy From: guy%gorodish@Sun.COM (Guy Harris) Newsgroups: comp.bugs.4bsd Subject: Re: TANDEM mode bugs in 4.3bsd Message-ID: <11323@sun.uucp> Date: Tue, 13-Jan-87 04:39:27 EST Article-I.D.: sun.11323 Posted: Tue Jan 13 04:39:27 1987 Date-Received: Tue, 13-Jan-87 19:18:03 EST References: <973@tymix.UUCP> <2439@sdcsvax.UCSD.EDU> <2554@phri.UUCP> Sender: news@sun.uucp Lines: 8 Summary: V6 didn't support XOFF, XON, or anything like it. > A historical interest note: on vanilla v6 UNIX, XOFF was a toggle; > send one XOFF to stop output, another to restart it. Given that v6 didn't > come with a pager program, the small amount of time saved by not moving > your fingers on the keyboard was important at 9600 baud. Vanilla V6 didn't have *any* support of XOFF, whether with XON or not. Then again, I don't think many people ran truly vanilla V6 (as in "read it in off the tape and don't go near the source").