[X-Unix] Why didn't Apple change the line break??

Doug McNutt douglist at macnauchtan.com
Wed Sep 22 13:32:15 PDT 2004


At 12:28 -0500 9/22/04, Craig A. Finseth wrote:
>>   CR LF was probably the first example of Microsoft bloat.
>Sorry, but it was inherited from CP/M.

And wait until the world adopts unicode and two more line-end code points - er - characters become common. They might require three bytes if depicted in UTF-8.

And where did the extra ? come from ??  Sudden braking?

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