• Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe
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    16 days ago

    It was probably designed like that because line printers were the thing in the early days of Windows.

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      16 days ago

      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.

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      16 days ago

      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.

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      13 days ago

      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.