4 Sep
2017
4 Sep
'17
2:06 a.m.
On Sun, Sep 3, 2017 at 11:08 AM, Warner Losh <imp(a)bsdimp.com> wrote:
On Sat, Sep 2, 2017 at 8:54 PM, Dave Horsfall <dave(a)horsfall.org> wrote:
The fun story on that Warner is after years of dogged defense of RMS, when
C was written for VMS, Cutler had to add Stream I/O. The moment is was
released, much (?most?) of customer base (including a lot of internal folks
like the compiler runtime and DB folks) switched to using it. It was so
much easier. I never heard Dave back down, but it I used to smile when I
saw the statistics.
On Sat, 2 Sep 2017, Nemo wrote:
Hhhmmm... This begs the historical question: When did LF replace CR/LF
<CR><LF> was the line terminator in DEC operating systems that grew up
around the same time as Unix. CP/M and MS-DOS inherited that from them
since those systems were developed, in part, using cross compilers running
on DEC gear with DEC OSes. Unix came from the Multics world where LF was
used as the line terminator... Thankfully, neither CP/M nor MS-DOS picked
up DEC's RMS...
Warner
in UNIX?
Unix has always used NL as the terminator :-)