Re: Single User

On Thu, May 19, 2022 at 10:51 AM Valeri Galtsev <galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu>
wrote:

>
>
> On 5/19/22 9:25 AM, Erich Dollansky wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Mon, 16 May 2022 01:44:57 +1000
> > Andy Farkas <andyf@andyit.com.au> wrote:
> >
> >> "Enter full pathname of shell or RETURN for /bin/sh:"
> >>
> >> I haven't seen a RETURN key on a keyboard for many many decades..
> >>
> >> -andyf
> >>
> >>
> >
> > ENTER and RETURN are two different keys.
> >
> > Are no mainframe guys here who still know this?
> >
>
> I am old enough to remember this. Do we remember CR/LF as in "carriage
> return" and "line feed"?
>
> ;-)
>
> Valeri
>
> > Erich
>
>
Man .. I'm old!

I even know where these terms came from. They're typewriter terms .

When you reached the end of the line on the paper being typed, you had to
crank a lever to roll the paper one line up (LINE FEED)
and use the lever to return (push) the carriage to the first position of
the new line (CARRIAGE RETURN).

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