21 Oct
1998
21 Oct
'98
3:05 a.m.
Does anyone know why MS decided to limit the
type-ahead buffer in MS-DOS
to 16 characters? Also, why they never increased this over time?
Basicly it's BIOS not DOS, And as the machines got faster,
the need for the type ahead decreased. So blame IBM, but
in fact, when tey designed BIOS they had mainly ASSM Apps
in Mind - not this typ of slowish other things. And for an
inteligent reprogrammable terminal/workstation 16 Bytes are
quite enugh.
Basically on-topic. I really want to know because
I've always cursed it.
Just add one of the many vintage type ahead buffer enhancer.
They have been yery popular, once upon a time...
Gruss
H.
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Ich denke, also bin ich, also gut
HRK