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From: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: paging in the terminal driver
Message-ID: <1363@bsu-cs.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 28-Oct-87 16:37:24 EST
Article-I.D.: bsu-cs.1363
Posted: Wed Oct 28 16:37:24 1987
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Keywords: output pagination

In article <3018@aw.sei.cmu.edu> firth@bd.sei.cmu.edu.UUCP (Robert Firth) 
writes about paging screen output:
>(c) we ignored the count if there was anything in the typeahead buffer,
>    on the principle that a user who had typed the next command didn't
>    really care what the current program was saying.

Bill Gates will love you.  His MS-DOS operating system goes one step
further:  If there's a character in the typeahead buffer, the terminal
driver completely ignores ^S.
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Rahul Dhesi         UUCP:  <backbones>!{iuvax,pur-ee,uunet}!bsu-cs!dhesi