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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