keyboard buffer

English Thesaurus

1. a buffer that keeps track of key strokes until the computer is ready to respond to them (noun.artifact)

hypernym	:	buffer, buffer storage, buffer store,
definition	:	(computer science) a part of RAM used for temporary storage of data that is waiting to be sent to a device; used to compensate for differences in the rate of flow of data between components of a computer system (noun.artifact)