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I see this faithfully reproduces that the cursor takes one pass to write the text, then flashes through a second faster pass. I remember seeing that sometimes.

Question: On the real systems where that occurred, what was the second pass doing? It never seemed to change anything. (No guesses, please. I'm looking for someone who knows.)

author here - it was an artifact of a common library that was used for TUI creation. I used it in the early 90s. Applications made with it all had it.

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