And even today, anyone who has worked on a project where some developers are on Windows and some are not has probably encountered the fun that is configuring autocrlf in Git: Windows uses CRLF (“carriage return, line feed”) as a line ending in text files, while other systems just use LF.
Personally, I think carriage return line feed makes more sense in the context of a printer carriage. But then, how often are people using printers like that?
Not sure about that. Even the IBM 5150, which was the computer where DOS was first released and also coined the term “PC”, had a video card come as standard.
Unix was developed in 1969. MS-DOS (from where Windows inherits its baggage) was developed in 1981. And DOS was basically a clone of CP/M developed in 1974.
So I dont see why windows would be designed with line printers in mind when its younger than unix. Its even more strange because CP/M and DOS were “microcomputer” OS and unlikely to ever operate a teletyper, while unix was primarily a mainframe OS that certainly would be operating a teletyper.
Then you have MacOs being a weirdo and just using CR.
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And even today, anyone who has worked on a project where some developers are on Windows and some are not has probably encountered the fun that is configuring autocrlf in Git: Windows uses CRLF (“carriage return, line feed”) as a line ending in text files, while other systems just use LF.
Personally, I think carriage return line feed makes more sense in the context of a printer carriage. But then, how often are people using printers like that?
It was probably designed like that because line printers were the thing in the early days of Windows.
That’s in TFA.
Having two characters: CR followed by LF allowed time for a teletype to physically return its carriage before printing the next printable character.
Not sure about that. Even the IBM 5150, which was the computer where DOS was first released and also coined the term “PC”, had a video card come as standard.
Unix was developed in 1969. MS-DOS (from where Windows inherits its baggage) was developed in 1981. And DOS was basically a clone of CP/M developed in 1974.
So I dont see why windows would be designed with line printers in mind when its younger than unix. Its even more strange because CP/M and DOS were “microcomputer” OS and unlikely to ever operate a teletyper, while unix was primarily a mainframe OS that certainly would be operating a teletyper.
Then you have MacOs being a weirdo and just using CR.