Not sure about that. Even the IBM 5150, which is the computer where DOS was first released, had a video card come as standard.
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Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 1 month agoIt was probably designed like that because line printers were the thing in the early days of Windows.
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deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 1 month 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.