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  • Edison’s electricity was the same 110volts. But it it was 110v from generators to peoples homes and thus suffered greatly from resistance losses.

    Telsa’s AC however used high voltages for distribution and step down to 110v at the final destination, so the resistance losses were much lower. Edison’s propaganda conveniently glosses over that fact.












  • 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.