rts/cts - a tutorial on flow control
Chris Torek
chris at umcp-cs.UUCP
Tue May 21 20:49:00 AEST 1985
Actually, there's nothing wrong with software flow control, just so
long as it's *completely invisible* above the level where flow control
is required.
TCP/IP and XNS both handle flow control in software, without preempting
any bytes. (Of course there is more transmission overhead....tanstaffl.)
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