remote echo

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remote echo - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  remote echo
  
     <communications> (Obsolete: "full-duplex") A mode of operation
     of communicating programs or devices in which the sending
     system does not display the characters the user enters, but
     only sends them to the remote system which then "echoes" them
     back to be displayed to the user.  This lets the operator see
     not only typing errors, but also transmission errors.  This is
     now the usual mode of most systems with remote users.
  
     Contrast: local echo.
  
     (2000-03-30)