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 :)