Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!uflorida!mlb.semi.harris.com!trantor.harris-atd.com!jabba!rwaters From: rwaters@jabba.harris-atd.com (Ralph Waters) Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc Subject: Re: Login vs. typeahead Message-ID: Date: 14 Nov 90 00:54:40 GMT References: <1990Nov13.182623.18967@smsc.sony.com> <1990Nov13.233329.8736@athena.mit.edu> Sender: news@trantor.harris-atd.com Reply-To: rwaters@jabba.ess.harris.com Lines: 14 In <1990Nov13.233329.8736@athena.mit.edu> jik@athena.mit.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens) writes: >If the login program doesn't accept input typed before echoing is >turned off, then people have an incentive not to type any input before echoing >is turned off. Using a system that always has type-ahead can be habit forming. Many of us who used VAX/VMS before UNIX have become used to the type-ahead, that it is hard to remember not to type too fast for the UNIX machine. -- -- Ralph Waters Internet: rwaters@jabba.ess.harris.com Harris Corporation - GISD Melbourne, Florida