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From: ok@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au (Richard A. O'Keefe)
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Subject: Re: Keyboard input
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Date: 24 Sep 90 08:58:45 GMT
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In article <2166@sparko.gwu.edu>, mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu (Michael Feldman) writes:
[about signle-keystroke input]
> I'm not sure what you mean by "it isn't Ada or portable." If you mean that
> it should have been included as a standard I/O package, you may be right;
> I think I'd agree.

I would like to know how such a package could be implemented under CMS
or TSO.  (Any "power of 2" fan know what CANDE will let you do these days?)
IBM's operating systems really don't believe in character transput to
terminals.  Perhaps IBM _ought_ to be ignored, but _could_ it have been?

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