MS-DOS type-ahead buffer limit?

From: Hans Franke <franke_at_sbs.de>
Date: Wed Oct 21 10:05:15 1998

> 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
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