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