Date: Fri, 20 May 2022 09:38:36 -0600 From: "@lbutlr" <kremels@kreme.com> To: FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Single User Message-ID: <65A6EAD2-FC33-4260-896A-41385767121F@kreme.com> In-Reply-To: <20220520071838.41b3c04b59a1a4b3bccc4bbc@sohara.org> 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>
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On 2022 May 20, at 00:18, Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org> wrote: >=20 > On Thu, 19 May 2022 23:50:48 -0600 > kremels@kreme.com wrote: >=20 >> On 2022-May-19 23:02, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote: >>> On Thu, 19 May 2022 15:06:07 -0600 >>> "@lbutlr" <kremels@kreme.com> wrote: >>>=20 >>>> On 2022 May 19, at 08:20, Mario Lobo <lobo@bsd.com.br> wrote: >>>>> Man .. I'm old! >>>>>=20 >>>>> I even know where these terms came from. They're typewriter terms = . >>>>=20 >>>> Not old enough! They're actaul1y teletype terms and codes! >>>=20 >>> Typewrites had carriage return and line feed levers long before >>> there were teletypes or ASCII. >>=20 >> The codes are teletype codes, not typewriter codes. All you need to = do=20 >=20 > "typewriter codes" ? Typewriters are mechanical devices that do = not > use codes. The codes are there in ASCII because teletypes needed the = same > functions as typewriters. The terms were in use for typewriters = decades > before there were teletypes, ASCII or even BCD. They were old when = computer > was a job description. Nope. Cottage Return was the name of the handle on the typewriter. = Everything 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. There was no 'line feed' because you didn't have a term = for 'turn the roller by hand'. --=20 "Esprit de corpse," said the Senior Wrangler. Ridcully glared at him
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