10 Sep
2017
10 Sep
'17
1:40 a.m.
On Sat, 9 Sep 2017, Arthur Krewat wrote:
TOPS-10 allowed type-ahead, with the caveat that if a
program exited with an
error, it would intentionally clear the TTY buffer. Something I actually
sorely miss.
That's actually a nice-ish feature.
IIRC, the type-ahead buffer was only around 80
characters. If you exceeded
it, it beeped at you ;)
Reminds me of the 15-key buffer in the PC BIOS, which also beeps if you
run out.
-uso.