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plugd plugd at thelambdalab.xyz
Fri May 22 16:01:34 BST 2020
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solderpunk writes:
be different just for the sake of different. DOS inherited CRLF from
CP/M, and Windows is just the "last man standing" from a long CRLF
tradition dating back to the days of physical teletypes, and which
included systems with a lot more geek street cred, like DEC's TOPS-10
and RT-11.
Which makes sense, given that you need a line feed to advance to thenext line, and a carriage return to return the carriage to the firstcolumn. :-)-------------- next part --------------A non-text attachment was scrubbed...Name: signature.ascType: application/pgp-signatureSize: 487 bytesDesc: not availableURL: <https://lists.orbitalfox.eu/archives/gemini/attachments/20200522/c0a3434c/attachment.sig>