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Sure, but sending a hypothetical combined CR+LF code (cf modern interpretation of CR) multiple times would accomplish the same thing, assuming there was no down
by HarHarVeryFunny 1y ago
Sure, but sending a hypothetical combined CR+LF code (cf modern interpretation of CR) multiple times would accomplish the same thing, assuming there was no downside to performing CR when already at the start of the line.
- kevindamm 1y agoSure, I guess my point was that in the beginning, on old teletype systems, these were separate mechanical operations. Carrying them over as separate key codes made sense still because they had separate semantics to everyone at the time. Not that they didn't think combining them would be a good idea but that combining them didn't occur to the contemporaries at the time.