alleged Disgusting kernel hack ( - (nf)

[Lance Norskog]

It's horse's mouth time!

Yes, the Fortune 32:16 console screen is memory-mapped, the best-case time
for writing characters is ~45Kbaud.  

The page mode feature keeps page length as the only terminal-knowledge
parameter.  Using the restart character (default ^Q) as the
page-mode restart character was a mistake, it interacts with the
^S/^Q used by terminals.  Currently it 2 other problems:
You can't change the <STOPPED> prompt, and it doesn't know
about logical-line-length-that-is-greater-than-physical-line-length.

Other than that, I love it.  One other thing: you can start a
long program that prints out a lot of stuff, leave it going for
20 minutes, and discover that its been <STOPPED> for 19 minutes!
Maybe a timeout would be nice...

Lance C. Norskog
Fortune Systems, 101 Twin Dolphin Drive, Redwood City, CA
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