Post #3379825

@mwichary@mastodon.online Makes me wonder about buffer size. Playing ADVENTURE (Collosal Cave) days on a video terminal on a DEC PCP whatever (7? 11?), it was a simple and common habit to navigate through the game preloading the moves (waiting for it to load) up until XYZZY or PLOUGH or PLOVER, to receive a text dump of the narrative so far, and when it had loaded, placing us facing, or past, a dwarf with an ax, or in a maze of twisty passages all alike (different) before the system could even respond.