apple ][ users know that there is no type-ahead during disk access. I have a ][+ with an enhanced keyboard encoder board that gave it 255 character type- ahead at all times. it was cool to keep typing in program code while saving the file. only problem was playing games where you didnt want the game to keep reading repeated keypresses. thankfully, the type-ahead can be disabled by pressing the space bar when powering up. In a message dated 98-10-21 13:15:23 EDT, you write: << Re: MS-DOS Lack of foresight? Lack of vision? Boy, is *that* wrong! :) I *still* run into the typeahead limits today, on the fastest machines around. 16 characters is probably fine when you're doing ordinary text entry, with no special machine tasks being requested. It *isn't* fine when you do something like: deltree foo <typeahead 17 or more characters while the computer is working> I'd still be running the one I used to use ... but it stopped working as of Windows 3.1 :)