Login vs. typeahead

[Ralph Waters]

In <1990Nov13.233329.8736 at athena.mit.edu> jik at athena.mit.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens) writes:

>If the login program doesn't accept input typed before echoing is
>turned off, then people have an incentive not to type any input before echoing
>is turned off.

Using a system that always has type-ahead can be habit forming.  Many of us
who used VAX/VMS before UNIX have become used to the type-ahead, that it is 
hard to remember not to type too fast for the UNIX machine.
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