Date: Fri, 20 May 2022 16:48:32 +0100 From: Norman Gray <gray@nxg.name> To: "@lbutlr" <kremels@kreme.com> Cc: FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Single User Message-ID: <95D951C5-8367-4EF4-B574-83B0E0530B99@nxg.name> In-Reply-To: <65A6EAD2-FC33-4260-896A-41385767121F@kreme.com> References: <91d28f49-1c1b-d2bf-5fd6-8b2e206ee6c7@andyit.com.au> <20220519132547.6b8cbb36.freebsd.ed.lists@sumeritec.com> <24632e11-1a86-8553-cf44-d29aa40a6858@kicp.uchicago.edu> <CA%2ByoEx8Jk_sceftUUuXi5Hq0Vq2TS=dgAgz7cJ5HweF9u0H5Gg@mail.gmail.com> <4BED02F8-BC45-4170-A59E-CCCB97E59990@kreme.com> <20220520060219.3bcda7d2cdb88efd756953b6@sohara.org> <834ecba8eafd42b8f4efee98cfea719e@kreme.com> <20220520071838.41b3c04b59a1a4b3bccc4bbc@sohara.org> <65A6EAD2-FC33-4260-896A-41385767121F@kreme.com>
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Greetings, On 20 May 2022, at 16:38, @lbutlr wrote: > Nope. Cottage Return was the name of the handle on the typewriter. Ever= ything else is from teletype machines. There was th "Horizontal tab" on a= typewriter, it was just a 'tab' and there was certainly not vertical tab= =2E There was no 'line feed' because you didn't have a term for 'turn the= roller by hand'. Well, yes and no. In my recollection, moving the lever on the typewriter= would do a 'line feed', and you could do this more than once to get doub= le or more spacing (or you could turn the roller by hand if you wanted). = If you continued to apply pressure on the handle then this would result = in you pushing the carriage back to the right. Thus 'line feed' and 'carriage return' were separate operations, even tho= ugh they were effected using the same handle and typically in a single mo= vement. (of course, we could here be talking of different vintages of typewriter,= but I think the above is right for most typewriters up to the invention = of the daisy-wheel or golfball ones (when the 'carriage return' became a = button on the keyboard, and the thing started to look more like a teletyp= e)) Best wishes, Norman -- = Norman Gray : https://nxg.me.uk
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