Proposed minor spec changes, for comment.

plugd plugd at thelambdalab.xyz
Fri May 22 16:01:34 BST 2020


solderpunk writes:
> be different just for the sake of different.  DOS inherited CRLF from
> CP/M, and Windows is just the "last man standing" from a long CRLF
> tradition dating back to the days of physical teletypes, and which
> included systems with a lot more geek street cred, like DEC's TOPS-10
> and RT-11.

Which makes sense, given that you need a line feed to advance to the
next line, and a carriage return to return the carriage to the first
column.  :-)
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