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From: tjt@kobold.UUCP (T.J.Teixeira)
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Subject: Re: How do you tell users to press RETURN every so often?
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Date: Wed, 30-Nov-83 10:33:48 EST
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Although "suggesting a TYPEWRITER as model" seems like a good idea, it
suffers from another problem.  A typewriter rings a bell when you get
near the right margin.  UNIX does not (and if it did, I think most
people would rip it out -- I recall using at least one terminal that
*did* ring the bell near the right margin and it was annoying to hear
it ring all the time).

P.S. my son has logged some time on a real typewriter too, but a glass
tty is more durable.
-- 
	Tom Teixeira,  Massachusetts Computer Corporation.  Westford MA
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