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mega_dingus
on July 21, 2022
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What happens when you press a key in your terminal...
e.g. VMS would not echo back keystrokes until it was truly ready to accept input
No typeahead while a previous command is running, like you can do in UNIX et al
kps
on July 21, 2022
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And many mainframe (IBM et al) terminals worked more like HTML forms — typing modified only the local screen, with a key to send the entire current state to the host.
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No typeahead while a previous command is running, like you can do in UNIX et al