[TUHS] More ruminations on terminals

[John Levine via TUHS]

It appears that Paul Winalski via TUHS <paul.winalski at gmail.com> said:
>On Thu, May 21, 2026 at 10:00 AM Ron Natalie via TUHS <tuhs at tuhs.org> wrote:
>
>> While the Model 33 could return the type element to the left in the time
>> it took for the next 110 baud character to come around, other printers
>> required addition of delays in the tty driver to accomodate this.
>
>A Teletype Model 33 actually took two character times to complete a
>carriage return.  The most common way to do perform a newline operation was
>the sequence CR/LF/NUL.  Not doing this risked the next character being
>printed in the wrong column.

Nitpick: on a Teletype, CR/LF was fine, no NUL needed.  The LF gave the carriage time to return.

As I recall the 5th and 6th edition terminal drivers could delay between characters
if you had a CR or tab without an LF to let it catch up, rather than sending NUL.

R's,
John