Casey, > Did Squeak pick up Macintosh style line endings when it travelled through > Apple, or did Apple pick up Smalltalk style line endings when it travelled > through PARC? > > I've been wondering about this for awhile now.
Wow, this is pretty off topic. But this is indeed where you are mostly likely to get a reply to a question like that. The original Smalltalk-80 from Xerox used CR as its line separation character, but the really big external influence on Apple was UCSD Pascal which shared that convention. Apple, however, (along with Commodore and Tandy/Radio Shack - the big 3 from 1977) had already adopted this convention from the start. DEC had adopted the LF+CR style required by teletype terminals and this was copied in CP/M, then MS DOS and finally Windows. Multics adopted LF and this was copied by Unix. For more details on these and other, more obscure (like early QNX and Sinclair), conventions see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newline -- Jecel _______________________________________________ fonc mailing list [email protected] http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc
