Comment on The day Return became Enter
hperrin@lemmy.ca 2 months agoPersonally, 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?
Comment on The day Return became Enter
hperrin@lemmy.ca 2 months agoPersonally, 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 months ago
It was probably designed like that because line printers were the thing in the early days of Windows.
deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 2 months 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 months 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.