At 07:55 PM 5/28/98 -0700, you wrote:
>The terminal acts as a buffer for the data, not for the keyboard. The
>keyboard is used to make changes to the data in the buffer and
>initiate the transfer of the changed data back to the 3000. The
>keystrokes themselves don't get sent to the 3000, only the edited
>data.
It's not a dead concept, either. Wanna see it in use? Go to
<
http://www.sinasohn.com/clascomp/specform.htm>.
The form (aka web page) is downloaded to your terminal (aka browser), you
enter your data, make changes/edits, and then transfer the data (aka
submit) to the host system (aka web server).
Same thing, only with prettier graphics and much slower.
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Received on Tue Jun 02 1998 - 00:29:10 BST