On Wed, 23 May 2001, Priscilla Oppenheimer wrote:
> And I thought NRF sent the strangest questions. ;-)
>
> Seriously, I think this has to do with terminal servers.
>
> I worked on terminal software back in the last millennium. Sometimes a
> state machine is required to keep track of what the user has typed
already.
> With character-based terminal applications you can send the data when a
> particular character is sent, such as a CR usually. This avoids the
default
> behavior of sending each character separately. On the other hand,
sometimes
> you want to send on a timeout instead. Sending on CR doesn't work with
some
> applications, such as vi where a j moves up a line, etc.
That's essentially correct. See my other posting for details.
> Beyond that, I can't remember anything else. You know what they say about
> the 80s. If you remember them you weren't there!?
Well, I was there, and I had managed to forget that bit of historical
lore until John brought it back with his question. I'm still trying to
decide whether I should thank him, or curse him, for that. :-)
--
"Someone approached me and asked me to teach a javascript course. I was
about to decline, saying that my complete ignorance of the subject made
me unsuitable, then I thought again, that maybe it doesn't, as driving
people away from it is a desirable outcome." --Me
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