[time-nuts] Lady Heather's Leap Log

[Alan Biocca]

Seems to me that CR CR LF was often used to leave a bit more time.

Was a long time ago, but we were very young then :)

-- Alan, wb6zqz


On Thu, Jan 1, 2009 at 10:32 AM, Didier <didier at cox.net> wrote:

> The reason for CR/LF is that CR takes a while on a teletype, while LF is
> fast, so sending both allowed enough time for the paper/print head to be in
> the right place before printing the next char. If you sent LF/CR on a
> teletype instead of CR/LF, you could see right away the reason :-)
>
> Didier
>
> PS: while writing this, I suddenly realized that it really dates me,
> doesn't
> it?
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: time-nuts-bounces at febo.com
> > [mailto:time-nuts-bounces at febo.com] On Behalf Of Lux, James P
> > Sent: Thursday, January 01, 2009 10:10 AM
> > To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement
> > Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Lady Heather's Leap Log
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On 12/31/08 6:06 PM, "Steve Rooke" <sar10538 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > 2009/1/1 Mark Sims <holrum at hotmail.com>:
> > >>
> > >> Note that there is an error in the first column heading in Lady
> > >> Heather's Leap Log.  It says UTC...  should be GPS.  The
> > three line
> > >> hour timestamp comment is correct (UTC).  The distributed
> > version of
> > >> the program logged only time-of-week.  I added the
> > HH:MM:SS yesterday
> > >> but messed up the column header (boy is Lady Heather gonna be mad
> > >> when She finds out).  The random spacing is due to Billy Gates
> > >> Quality Control...  he still can't figure out where to put
> > CRs and LFs in an email...
> > >
> > > Well, POSIX decided on LF, Mac on CR and Billy Boy decided to hedge
> > > his bets with both LF and CR. It's little wonder I always
> > get a lot of
> > > double spacing here then :-)
> > >
> >
> > Hardly microsoft's fault. Blame the teletype. Or perhaps DEC.
> >  RT-11 stored CR/LF in files, and CP/M adopted that
> > convention, followed by DOS, etc.
> > I imagine RT-11 did CR/LF because
> > A) it allows use of unmodified KSR/ASR 33 TTYs without having
> > to worry if the user has the autoLF option
> > B) with ink on paper, the ability to do overprints (CR w/o
> > LF) is actually useful. Them newfangled CRT based terminals
> > can't do this (except for the Tek 401x series)
> >
> >
> > Jim
> >
> >
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