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Thu Jan 21 16:20:16 1982
UNIX vs. VMS
>From JSOL@USC-ECLB Thu Jan 21 14:47:40 1982
I disagree! VMS has the facility to pass all characters (I mean  ALL!)
to the user's program. This feature is available through the  /PASSALL
option of  the SET  TERMINAL  command interesting enough, and is  also
available to the  user program using  a system service.  In this  mode
absolutely every character is transferred and the terminal driver does
nothing more than shift  bits between the unibus  port for the  device
and its appropriate input stream buffer.  VMS *does* do it right,  now
if UNIX does not have  such a user settable  feature then that is  yet
another winnage point for VMS.

--Jsol

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