News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on What happens when you press a key in your terminal?. Parent comment

Re:What happens when you press a key in your terminal? by mega_dingus on Thursday July 21, 2022 @09:47AM (#32179338)
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

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:What happens when you press a key in your terminal? by kps on Thursday July 21, 2022 @10:32AM (#32179866)
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.
[ Parent | on HN ]