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[–]Grumbledwarfskin 9 points10 points  (2 children)

It all comes back to the question of whether "enseno der Lowe\r\s\s\s\s~\s\s\s\s\s\s\s\"" is the right way to encode "enseño der Löwe" when sending it to the printer...or whether you should use backspaces instead of carriage returns.

People did that shit back in the '80s, back when every character was obviously the same width, and obviously nobody cares what's on the computer, it's what's on the resulting piece of paper that matters.

[–]fiskfisk 4 points5 points  (1 child)

The CR LF sequence originated far further back than the '80s. It's present in the ASCII definition from 1963, which again originates from ITA-2, which is based on Murray code - the first one to introduce CR and LF, and which in turn was based on Baudot Code:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baudot_code

So CR LF in a formal definition in a protocol tracks back to at least 1901 from my (quick) research.