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From: malc@equinox.unr.edu (Malcolm Carlock)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Type-ahead in unix
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Date: 2 Apr 91 00:52:49 GMT
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In article <659@adpplz.UUCP> martin@adpplz.UUCP (Martin Golding) writes:
-In <7297@utacfd.UUCP> nomura@meap.uta.edu (S. Nomura) writes:
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->I am accustomed to the type-ahead feature of the VAX/VMS.
->Is there any easy way to inplement this in unix ? Thank you.
-
-Boy, are you running on the wrong OS. Our vendor is going to assist
-us in re-programming the terminal controller so we can get decent
-typeahead, NOBODY has had any other useful suggestions. It's 
-worthwhile for us because we have lots of these things; otherwise
-your choice is pretty much to suffer in silence.

Huh??  What are you talking about?  All the Unices I've used, since V7
on a PDP-11 to SunOS 4.1, have had decent type-ahead, so decent in fact
that I've never had to worry about overrunning it.  What manner of Unix
are you guys running, and what applications??


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Malcolm L. Carlock                      Internet:  malc@unr.edu
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