On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 9:29 AM, Lennart Borgman wrote: > > Probably this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paned_window > Pane was exactly the term used by the Apollo Computer Display Manager back in the early 80s. A shell window included a line separating unconsumed editable type-ahead from immutable history. The two areas were know respectively as the input pane and the transcript pane. You can see two examples in the following image: http://www.typewritten.org/Media/Images/apollo-dm.png Window pad0001 displays a privileged shell prompt (#) in the input pane. Window pad0002 display a cpscr program executing so no shell prompt ($) yet. /john