Terminal output: parity, 7 vs. 8 bits, etc.

[Boyd Roberts]

Mark Horton says:

>   Anyway, you're entitled to your own opinion.  I think must of us are
>   pretty happy with the user interface of the 4BSD tty driver, even if
>   not with the ioctl interface.

That's probably the problem.  To many people are satified
with dodgy pieces of software.  UNIX was a step away
from it, but it looks like this is no longer the case.

How many "X did Y, now it doesn't" cases have we seen on the net?
I know I've seen too many "enhancements" and "features".

Options I can do without (cat -v considered harmful).  I'll
stick to power and clean design.

If only there were a few more Rob Pike's...