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 | | When you're using a full-duplex serial connection, signals are being sent simultaneously in both directions, from the terminal to the host computer and from the computer to the terminal, on two different wires (the send and receive lines). |
 | | Rather, it is transmitted out to the HP3000 on the send wire, where it is "absorbed" into a growing string of characters in a storage buffer, and, when once received, is re-transmitted (echoed) back to you on the receive wire. |
 | | Rather now, only when a termination character was received, or the inputted line had reached a certain pre-specified length, or a time-out had occurred, did the auxiliary ATP processor transmit the line of text it was buffering to the CPU, as a whole. |
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