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nounscrollback (uncountable)
- uncountablecomputingThe 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 152 more examples
New communications documents are set for a scrollback area of unlimited size […]
1995, Charles Rubin, The Macintosh bible guide to ClarisWorks 4The scrollback buffer allows you to scroll back and review earlier commands and command output.
2005, Dave Taylor, Learning UNIX for Mac OS X Tiger - broadlyuncountableThe part of an online discussion in a scrollable chat that a participants reads to catch up to the more recent discussion.
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