scrollback
nounEtymology From scroll + back.
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Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences The part of a scrolling display that precedes the current line or section.
- The program can hold as many as 5000 lines of a session in a scrollback buffer.1993 April, InfoWorld, volume 15, number 15:
- New communications documents are set for a scrollback area of unlimited size […]1995, Charles Rubin, The Macintosh bible guide to ClarisWorks 4:
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- The scrollback buffer allows you to scroll back and review earlier commands and command output.2005, Dave Taylor, Learning UNIX for Mac OS X Tiger:
- Synonyms
- backscroll