Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ncar!umigw!mthvax!wb8foz From: wb8foz@mthvax.cs.miami.edu (David Lesher,,255RTFM,255rtfm) Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc Subject: Re: Login vs. typeahead Message-ID: <1990Nov14.023810.496@mthvax.cs.miami.edu> Date: 14 Nov 90 02:38:10 GMT References: <1990Nov13.182623.18967@smsc.sony.com> <1990Nov13.233329.8736@athena.mit.edu> Reply-To: wb8foz@mthvax.cs.miami.edu (David Lesher) Distribution: na Organization: NRK Clinic for habitual NetNews Abusers Lines: 16 >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. Yes, but you get positive feedback..... Wait a second or so, and you get in. Hurry, and you have to stop, explain to the password policeman where the fire is, pay the ticket, and THEN go back and do it again. -- A host is a host from coast to coast.....wb8foz@mthvax.cs.miami.edu & no one will talk to a host that's close............(305) 255-RTFM Unless the host (that isn't close)......................pob 570-335 is busy, hung or dead....................................33257-0335