Type-ahead in unix

[Ronald S H Khoo]

drake at drake.almaden.ibm.com writes:

> In article <15686 at smoke.brl.mil> gwyn at smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn) writes:
> >UNIX has "always" supported type-ahead.
> >I think what you are discussing is deferred echo.
> 
> I think they are discussing deferred echo, too.  As for why you have to have
> it ... well, it would sure be nice to be able to type the next command
> without ruining the appearance of the output of the current one!

Can someone explain how Rob Pike's Plan 9 stuff does *both* echoing
immediately *and* rearranging the display so that the output doesn't
have its appearance ruined?  Sounds like the best of both worlds to me ..

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