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> This choice was designed to spread the pain equally among all operating systems of the day; each has to translate to and from the CR LF convention when text w
by drdec 2y ago
> This choice was designed to spread the pain equally among all
operating systems of the day; each has to translate to and from the CR
LF convention when text was transferred across the network.
On the one hand, this seems clever and fair. On the other hand, this is why we can't have nice things.
- Someone 2y agoAccording tithe article, it wasn’t even true. FTA: “Early operating system designers had to adopt some "end-of-line" convention using CR and LF; some used LF, some used CR, and some used a two-octet sequence: LF CR or CR LF.” ⇒ OSes that used CR LF didn’t have to do that translation.