Fill counts

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Fill counts


Some older terminal hardware requires time to complete a physical action initiated by a control character. For instance, after receiving a carriage return (CR) character, the DEC LA30 terminal needed time before the print head returned to the beginning of the next line.  If characters were received before this, they would display at whatever point the print head was as it returned.  Such old terminals are very rare, but UOS provides backwards compatibility for them.