> From: John Day <jeanj...@comcast.net> > > Multics was based on EBCDIC which had a New Line (NL) character but > no CR or LF. The ARPANET went with the ASCII standard. But I never > forgave the ANSI committee for taking left arrow out of the character > set (as a replacement operator).
Which suggests that the reason Unix used LF as newline was because Unix was consciously based on Multics, and Multics had a newline but no carriage return or line feed. Dale
