Hello Greg!

  GAW> As I understand it Emacs was first implemetned on
     > ITS, and grew out of ITS TECO, and in fact was
     > originally a collection of "Editor Macros" for TECO
     > put together by Richard Stallman...

Thanks for your very interesting posting, I can tell there's
a lot of Emacs history I'm not familiar with.  Thanks for
including the reference too.

  GAW> It's not that Emacs doesn't cope well with software
     > handshaking...

I phrased that badly, it comes from having so many messages
to reply to and not taking enough care over each one.

  GAW> Unix copes as well, or better, with software flow
     > control than any operating system can.

That was pretty much what I suspected, which is why I was
surprised by the suggestion that unix (and presumably BSD)
depended upon hardware handshaking.

Regards,
-Andy.

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