[Parodper]

UNIX's LF precedes them by at least half a decade, probably more.

[bobmcnamara]

CRLR is Baudot, predating UNIX by what, a century ?

[Parodper]

Apparently it's from 1901 (Murray code) or 1932 (ITA2).

The fact that both Apple's and CP/M codes came out roughly at the same time, both on microcomputers, shows that it was probably just a design decision.

[JdeBP]

rswail said ASCII, which definitely pre-dated Unix, not the other way around. And there was some to and fro about the equivalence of LineFeed and NewLine in the 1960s.