In message <87emn7mu5v.fsf@redmail.redback.com>
Chris G. Demetriou writes:

>"R. C. Dowdeswell" <elric@mabelode.imrryr.org> writes:
>> I remember being
>> annoyed by sun's scrolling back in the days of SunOS 4.1.3.  Having
>> the screen scroll up ten lines just because a single line has been
>> output is suboptimal, IMO.
>
>sure, yes.  however, that's not the point i was trying to make:
>
>the code to do that's there now, and would be a reasonable way to test
>the speed improvement gained based on scrolling multiple lines at once.

Sure, execpt that wont have much effect, unless we also widen the path
which Bill Sommerfeld fixed last month.



>However, even if the notion of deferring input until you have a
>certain amount, or whatever, before processing it/scrolling/whatever
>is implemented, the existing 'sun' behaviour of allowing multiple line
>jumps should stay the same.  it's a long-existing and well-documented
>part of sun consoles.  8-)

s/Sun/Sun PROM/.  We dont _have_ to emulate Sun PROM consoles on
non-Suns, or even on Suns, if we don't want to. We can just change
the name;)