On Sat, 15 Apr 2023 14:23:12 +0300, Nikolay Nikolov via fpc-pascal
<fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org> declaimed
the following:

>Actually, the Linux console (but not X11!) uses Scroll Lock to pause the 
>console output, pretty much the same way DOS and BIOS used the Pause 
>key. Why didn't Linus Torvalds use the Pause key is beyond me.
>

        Why didn't either use the long established X-on/X-off <ctrl-q>/<ctrl-s>
convention?

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