On Jan 25, 2011, at 10:59 AM, Walter Bright wrote:
> 
> It obviously goes back at least as far as ASCII itself. LF means "line feed", 
> which advances the platen one line. CR means "carriage return" which moves 
> the print head to the beginning of the line. These are separate operations, 
> and a lot of older programs relied on it. ASCII terminals (and teletypes) all 
> operated this way.

Most (all?) internet protocols require CRLF for line termination as well.
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