Gould computers

William L. Sebok wls at astrovax.UUCP
Mon Dec 10 03:27:49 AEST 1984


> GAK! You shold not use DSR and DTR for flow control.  DTR hangs up
> comm gear and on my terminal at home, DSR dropping shuts down the
> terminal.
> 
> Maybe you mean RTS and CTS?  It's still pretty disgusting.  If it's
> true, I think we better send our Gould back.
> 
> -Ron

Personally I think RTS and CTS flow control is less disgusting than XON and
XOFF (I think XON, XOFF is disgusting).  I think that flow control should have
been done out-of-band whenever possible.
-- 
Bill Sebok			Princeton University, Astrophysics
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