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From: harrison@necssd.NEC.COM (Mark Harrison)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Type-ahead in unix
Message-ID: <752@necssd.NEC.COM>
Date: 5 Apr 91 21:43:56 GMT
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In article <5930@tahoe.unr.edu>, malc@equinox.unr.edu (Malcolm Carlock) writes:

> 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.

He might be defining "decent" typeahead as not plopping characters on
the screen as they are typed, but instead buffering them internally and
displaying them only when they would have normally been display.

		Just like MS-DOS :-).
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