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Going to a new line is "line feed", hence the combo CR/LF.
by esafak 1y ago
Going to a new line is "line feed", hence the combo CR/LF.
- flomo 1y agoYeah, it kinda blew my mind when I figured out that DOS was actually correct in that way, and unix was 'cheating' by magically inserting CR into the terminal codes.
- ArnoVW 1y agoI believe that it also has to do with the fact that at the time there no ‘screens’, only teletypers. So a new line is “return the carriage to the start” and “feed another line” (of paper) into the printer.