• Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe
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    3 months ago

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

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      3 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.