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From: limes@sun.com (Greg Limes)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Character echo at read time
Summary: line at the bottom - IBM did it long ago
Keywords: echo tty device driver line discipline
Message-ID: <66980@sun.uucp>
Date: 6 Sep 88 19:41:10 GMT
References: <3028@tekcrl.CRL.TEK.COM>
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Reply-To: limes@sun.com (Greg Limes)
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In-reply-to: eirik@tekcrl.TEK.COM (Eirik Fuller)

In article <3028@tekcrl.CRL.TEK.COM>, eirik@tekcrl (Eirik Fuller) writes:
>This reminder gives me a sudden urge to hack xterm so that there is a
>separate row (something like a status line) in which typeahead gets
>echoed as it's typed.  But, if I wait long enough, this urge will pass.
>Besides, a vague memory tells me Apollo thought of this already, or
>something like it anyway.

A not-so-vague memory tells me that IBM thought of this many years back. At
least, that is how I remember interacting with the mainframe where I worked
during college. This feature also shows up in some terminal emulators, usually
in the guise of a "conference" or "line-oriented" mode.
-- 
Greg Limes [limes@sun.com]		semper ubi, sub ubi