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ryandrake
41 days ago
Modern computer text output devices don’t have a “carriage” or a “feed” mechanism. I’d argue both CR and LF are legacy, anachronistic characters whose purpose was too device specific to make sense as a text encoding.
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kps
41 days ago
Sure, there's a text encoding part
and
an equipment control part that puts the CII in ASCII.
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