John Levine <johnl(_at_)taugh(_dot_)com> wrote:
My, what a bunch of parvenus. SIP got it from SMTP, SMTP got it from
Telnet. Back in the 1960s we all used <CR><LF> because on a
mechanical model 33 or 35 Teletype, CR really returned the carriage,
LF really advanced the platen, and you needed both. I first ran into
CR/LF on a PDP-6 in about 1968, but I know it wasn't new then.
Dates back to 1930s teleprinters, I think.
Tony.
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