Comment on The day Return became Enter
rothaine@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Fun read!
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.
hperrin@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
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?
Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 2 weeks ago
It was probably designed like that because line printers were the thing in the early days of Windows.
deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 2 weeks 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.
defaultusername@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Not sure about that. Even the IBM 5150, which is the computer where DOS was first released, had a video card come as standard.