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Trivia/history question: There's a very good reason it's \r\n and not \n\r.
by kps 6y ago
Trivia/history question: There's a very good reason it's \r\n and not \n\r.
- btilly 6y agoThe commands were used to drive a teletype machine. Carriage return and newline were independent operations with carriage return physically taking longer. So \r\n allowed it to get to the next letter soon.