Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2020 20:40:54 +0100 From: Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freebsd vs. netbsd Message-ID: <20200612204054.363719eeb2d1f23e4f01fcb0@sohara.org> In-Reply-To: <4fff9eab-fa74-afe9-b046-9b0bcdb072ce@panix.com> References: <171506d5-19aa-359e-c21d-f07257c52ebd@freenetMail.de> <f667e8f9-b279-a3ce-3fc4-224ba17f4bbb@kicp.uchicago.edu> <00225a04-237d-9051-9aea-12c192106a20@anatoli.ws> <373EDB20-C750-42E2-A41B-EA61F6E49807@kicp.uchicago.edu> <20200609120136.00005b3c@seibercom.net> <2393a1e0-b073-950a-78be-9f57d8e9934b@anatoli.ws> <e1f6623a-3b3c-a43e-446a-d41f20f69418@kicp.uchicago.edu> <20200610063555.00003707@seibercom.net> <82F57D0D-E0EC-49F7-824E-20A296C9F549@kicp.uchicago.edu> <250b853a-b436-0e99-b05c-9abd6b6019ef@panix.com> <20200611070630.2cb42786.freebsd@edvax.de> <EA869B95-9D98-4ECC-9371-C57A0035BC32@kreme.com> <20200611075658.1dd841a9.freebsd@edvax.de> <20200611082443.0000187a@seibercom.net> <2e6c6baf-9d87-2a02-00c3-578c6630f97f@kicp.uchicago.edu> <20200611172537.2f7cdc07@archlinux> <b1d78ca6-f5f8-02d0-25c6-b53d21771fd6@panix.com> <20200612081401.f5a5c95b.freebsd@edvax.de> <4fff9eab-fa74-afe9-b046-9b0bcdb072ce@panix.com>
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On Fri, 12 Jun 2020 14:58:16 -0400 Kurt Hackenberg <kh@panix.com> wrote: > On 2020-06-12 02:14, Polytropon wrote: > > >> But it's often done by redefining the ASCII characters carriage return > >> and line feed. Originally they meant, respectively, move the print head > >> to the left margin, and roll the paper up a line. > > > > Erm... no. The carriage return returns the _carriage_ to the > > first position (here: to the right), that's why it is called > > carriage return and not print head return. :-) > > > > On older electrical typewriters, you will see... > Electric typewriters didn't use ASCII. The point being made is that typewriters (manual or electric) operate by moving the carriage (the device that carries the paper) and the carriage return lever returns the carriage but teletypes and other printers operate by moving the print head and the carriage return returns the print head not the carriage. This strongly suggests that the name of the ASCII character derives from typewriters and not from the printers that used it otherwise it would be printhead return. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org>
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