type-ahead
<operating system> The facility where the user can type more characters
before the system has fully responded to those already typed. Type-ahead is
common on most current systems. It allows the user to type without worrying that
the computer may miss input because it is temporarily busy, e.g. reformating a
page, checking spelling, or simply suffering from network latency. There is
usually some limit to the amount of input the system can buffer, beyond which it
_will_ lose input.
[Equivalent term for speech recognition?]
(2003-06-15)
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