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The terminals originally used on these IBM mainframes were interesting too. Their hardware protocol let you define an entire screen with multiple input fields and would handle accepting all the input in those regions, buffering it all until you submitted the screen. It's very different from the line-oriented and character-oriented terminals we're used to in the UNIX/DOS world.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_3270




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