[TUHS] terminal - just for fun

arnold at skeeve.com arnold at skeeve.com
Tue Aug 5 23:13:31 AEST 2014


John Cowan <cowan at mercury.ccil.org> wrote:

> The Unix treatment of LF as newline shows, however, that you folks had
> model 37 TTYs; the model 33 still required CR+LF for newline.

I think I'd trust the memory of the Bell Labs guys here. The tty driver
(and stty(1)) had options for translating LF to CR+LF on output and
CR to LF on input.  I've seen mention here and in other places of Model 33
too many times to believe that it was really a Model 37.  :-)

Thanks,

Arnold



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