Re: Single User

From: Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve_at_sohara.org>
Date: Fri, 20 May 2022 06:18:38 UTC 
On Thu, 19 May 2022 23:50:48 -0600
kremels@kreme.com wrote:

> 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:
> > 
> >> On 2022 May 19, at 08:20, Mario Lobo <lobo@bsd.com.br> wrote:
> >> > Man .. I'm old!
> >> >
> >> > I even know where these terms came from. They're typewriter terms .
> >> 
> >> Not old enough! They're actaul1y teletype terms and codes!
> > 
> > 	Typewrites had carriage return and line feed levers long before
> > there were teletypes or ASCII.
> 
> The codes are teletype codes, not typewriter codes. All you need to do 

	"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.

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Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org>