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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