Hess.Unicorn%MIT-MULTICS@sri-unix.UUCP (12/17/83)
Yes, The FinalWord does semi-intentionally turn off type-ahead. Originally, this was related to CP/M things. But the IBM PC version does the same thing. It turns out that if you manage to type things during the instant that TFW clears the screen but before it finishes redisplaying the first screen line, it will get a "Mark in Wrong Buff" error message because the "screen marks" which are used in redisplay have been modified before being used (and presumably saved) the first time. Too bad it takes so long to load TFW on your machine; I hardly notice nor care. The other place where type-ahead disappears in TFW is in the formatter and printer, but these are always looking at the keyboard eating characters to see if you typed a ^Z.