misk@piefed.social to retrocomputing@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish · 3 months agoThe day Return became Enteraresluna.orgexternal-linkmessage-square4linkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkThe day Return became Enteraresluna.orgmisk@piefed.social to retrocomputing@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish · 3 months agomessage-square4linkfedilink
minus-squareOnomatopoeia@lemmy.cafelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·3 months agoIt was probably designed like that because line printers were the thing in the early days of Windows.
minus-squaredeadbeef79000@lemmy.nzlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·3 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.
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.