How did it become the Internet standard? Because at the time it was adopted as the Internet standard the majority of operating systems used it. Probably the big

How did it become the Internet standard? Because at the time it was adopted as the Internet standard the majority of operating systems used it. Probably the biggest influence on both the Internet standard and Microsoft was DEC. And actually, it is used by Unix too, in the TTY layer: Unix by default translates LF to CRLF on output - and that translation is in the POSIX standard. So the claim that CRLF isn’t in POSIX is false