VT100 and bagbiting

[ron at BRL-TGR.ARPA]

From:      Ron Natalie <ron at BRL-TGR.ARPA>

The fact the the 5620 does not transmit control-s and control-q from
the keyboard is a bug.  Even the manual says it is suppose to send them.
One of the great lossages is that people insist on selling terminals with
the assumption that you never really want to do any work on them at speeds
greater than 1200 baud.  Now, I can accept this moronic approach for things
like teletypes and diablos because of the problems of high speed moving parts
but there is no excuse in this day an age for solid state terminals to do so.
My VT52 compatible terminal cost less than a VT100 and has fancier editing
features and can run at 19,200Kbaud continuously without the need to interrupt
the computer.

C'mon, Doug.  Admit that DEC does a lousy job of designing terminals.

-Ron