misk@piefed.social to retrocomputing@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish · 4 months agoThe day Return became Enteraresluna.orgexternal-linkmessage-square11fedilinkarrow-up1133arrow-down10
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minus-squareOnomatopoeia@lemmy.cafelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down1·4 months agoIt was probably designed like that because line printers were the thing in the early days of Windows.
minus-squaredeadbeef79000@lemmy.nzlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·4 months agoThat’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.
minus-squareDefault Username@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·edit-24 months agoNot 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.
It was probably designed like that because line printers were the thing in the early days of Windows.
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.
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.