21 Oct
1998
21 Oct
'98
12:56 a.m.
Sean 'Captain Napalm' Conner wrote:
It was thus said that the Great Sam Ismail once stated:
The Tandy 2000 had a full kilobyte of typeahead at need. Due to its
speed, the need was rare.
That, at least as much as the better keyboard, better display and
higher speed, was a real nice feature of the machine. So it didn't
play the most popular graphics games. That's what game consoles
are for.
--
Ward Griffiths <mailto:gram@cnct.com> <http://www.cnct.com/home/gram/>
When I was crossing the border into Canada, they asked me if I had any
firearms with me. I said "Well, what do you need?" -- Steven Wright
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?
That's not a DOS limit, but a BIOS limit. Blame IBM.
-spc (That, and for IRQ conflicts. Thanks IBM. [1])
[1] Yes, the IBM AT fixed that, but it required a bit more hardware to
exist on the cards, and if you used a PC or XT card you still
couldn't share IRQs. Sigh.