1. A method for displaying information on a data acquiring device, comprising the steps of: receiving an input data; generating a version of the received input data to be displayed in accordance with one or more display parameters; storing the version of the received input data generated in accordance with the one or more display parameters to a first waveform trace buffer; storing the generated version of the received input data to be displayed to a display buffer; displaying the generated version of the received input data from the display buffer; receiving a requested change in one or more display parameters; implementing the requested change of the one or more display parameters to the data in the display buffer; displaying the changed version of the data in the display buffer; processing further received input data in accordance with the requested change in the one or more display parameters; storing the further received and processed input data to a second waveform trace buffer; and updating the data in the display buffer in accordance with the stored further received and processed input data from the second waveform trace buffer.