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Proposed minor spec changes, for comment.

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>