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From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Historical question: LF vs. CR\LF in text files
Keywords: text files
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Date: 31 May 90 19:25:25 GMT
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 >The developers of Unix didn't merely drop the carriage return character.
 >They renamed the line feed character "newline".  At the time some people
 >objected to this, pointing out that there was now no "down one line"
 >character.

FYI, folks, UNIX came *after* Multics, and Multics used the LF character
as "newline".  UNIX didn't invent the idea....