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Back in the day, most hardware couldn’t send data without having the user press ‘send’.

A shared system that could survive being interrupted whenever any of its users pressed a key still was relatively rare.

So I guess this might ¿partly? Have been to show of the capabilities of the system. At 1200 or maybe even 300 baud, it may also be the better UX, but I wouldn’t know.



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