I fully agree, but we're talking history here, before Unix existed. The confusion about "LF" (Unix) vs "CR" (Apple) vs "CR/LF" (MS/DOS & Windows) is because we

I fully agree, but we're talking history here, before Unix existed. The confusion about "LF" (Unix) vs "CR" (Apple) vs "CR/LF" (MS/DOS & Windows) is because we didn't have an explicit "Line End" character in 7-bit ASCII. There was "EOT" (Ctrl-D/ASCII 4/EOF in Unix) , "ETX" (Ctrl-C/ASCII 3), and other characters that were used to mean other I/O, including ones that didn't match the ASCII definition like Ctrl-S/Ctrl-Q to stop/start I/O, and Ctrl-Z to mean EOF (MS/DOS & Windows).