• hperrin@lemmy.ca
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    4 months ago

    Personally, I think carriage return line feed makes more sense in the context of a printer carriage. But then, how often are people using printers like that?

    • Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe
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      4 months ago

      It was probably designed like that because line printers were the thing in the early days of Windows.

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        4 months ago

        That’s in TFA.

        Having two characters: CR followed by LF allowed time for a teletype to physically return its carriage before printing the next printable character.

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        4 months ago

        Not sure about that. Even the IBM 5150, which was the computer where DOS was first released and also coined the term “PC”, had a video card come as standard.