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From: jer@peora.UUCP (J. Eric Roskos)
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Subject: Re: dumber terminal device drivers // DG
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Date: Thu, 16-May-85 08:24:05 EDT
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> Incidentally, typeahead echoing is a behavior that DEC never could
> decide about.  Echoing was immediate on TOPS-10, ...

That's the truth!  With the more recent versions of TOPS-10 (I think the
versions after 7.02, but I forget), they have changed it; you get to choose
either immediate echoing, or echoing at the time of the read.  The latter
is called "deferred echo" in TOPS-10.
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