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Re: [xml-dev] Achieving interoperability in a world where differentOS's represent newline differently
- From: Rick Jelliffe <rjelliffe@allette.com.au>
- To: Hermann Stamm-Wilbrandt <STAMMW@de.ibm.com>
- Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2014 14:26:07 +1100
In the first decades of computing, there were two kinds of "newlines". One was control codes for printers: carriage return and line feed. The other was record start and end signifiers for tape storage: think COBOL or FORTRAN.
By the 1990s, both kinds of raw newlines had been superseded: drivers hid device details, and Apis took hid drivers. Newlines were for formatting things on screen or for markup.
Rick
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