Re: text file from Linux to windows.

On Thursday 29 May 2008, Miles Fidelman wrote:
Actually, it dates back further than that, to ASR33 teletype
machines, where you needed to issue separate carriage return
and line feed characters to end a line - to i) physically
return the carriage to the beginning of the line, and ii)
feed a line of paper (turn the platten). (Anybody else out
there old enough to remember when ASR33s where THE standard
i/o device? :-)

One reason for that was that it took extra time to do a carriage
return. Having a non-printing character required after a CR
made sure that the carriage had returned before printing
another character.

Remember .. those things had no buffer. The character decoding
was completely mechanical. The electrical feed consisted of
a "current loop" that operated an electromagnet in sync with
the serial code.



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