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to: JAMES VAHN
from: DARRYL GREGORASH
date: 1998-01-23 08:01:00
subject: circular buffer

Replying to a message of James Vahn to Darryl Gregorash:
 JV>>> LIFO,FIFO... the thing is in a circle. 
 >> 
 >> I know you didn't want to say this :) 
 >> but you always read from the head for a queue.
 JV> Actually I did mean it- I've been thinking along the lines
 JV> of a  scrolling window looking at a data buffer: foward,
 JV> backward or  'round and 'round in a circle. Remember COMIT,
 JV> the old terminal  emulator of yesteryear? It had a circular
 JV> buffer. 
Yes, and did it read the buffer in order oldest to newest, or the reverse? If 
the former, then it is handled as a queue.. if the latter, a stack. Circular 
has nothing to do with it.
But I hardly think scrolling windows is what he has in mind :)
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