> >>A 2741 attached view a 270{1,2,3{ (I'd need to drag out tbe books to
> >>rememebr which one) would probably do it.
> > You still didn't get the input at the host until the user pressed
Enter,
> Ah, I didn't know that. It was more a device I saw rather than used.

Yeah, only the FEP ever saw the individual keystrokes, even with the
start/stop devices. After hitting enter, the FEP sent a XOFF while
processing the line to the host, then sent XON and . when it was ready
to go. Still half duplex, and only full lines got sent up. 

> > so I'm not sure that that would be any significant improvement over
the
> > 3215. It still won't give you character-by-character I/O that vi and
> > friends demand.
> 
> I'm starting to remember, the 3210 and 3215 had some kind of key to
> press, to say "Scuse me, I've got something to say."

ATTN, I think. 

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