Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
So CR alone should be available as "go to the beginning of the current line". LF alone should mean "go to the beginning of the next line". And that should be it. Unix got this right. CP/M et al got this wrong.
CP/M did not invent that meaning for LF. LF goes back decades earlier than CP/M.
In the early 80's, unix wasn't seen much. The best systems were the DEC computers, and a lot of software professionals expected DEC to become the dominant player. DEC operating systems were widely seen as the best. (IBM was still mired in their ridiculous EBCDIC encoding.)
I suspect that unix and its conventions would be dead by now if not for Linux.
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