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I was curious and looked it up - according to Wikipedia, that happens on Acorn BBC and RISC OS. I never encountered it, guess they were not popular enough :) h
by virgilp 7y ago
I was curious and looked it up - according to Wikipedia, that happens on Acorn BBC and RISC OS. I never encountered it, guess they were not popular enough :)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newline https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newline
- zaarn 7y agoI think some other machines used it too; a LFCR prevents the printhead from moving over the already printed areas, thusly it prevents smearing of ink on some very cheap printers due to freshly printed ink.
- bch 7y agoIt makes sense if you think of it in terms of a manual typewriter - the carriage-return lever winds the platen (the line feed), and if you keep pushing the lever, you return the carriage to the beginning. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typewriter#Standardization https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typewriter#Standardization
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- fanf2 7y agoSpooled output was pretty obscure, though. For most purposes the BBC Micro and Archimedes used CR as the newline character.