John Levine <jo...@taugh.com> wrote:
>
> My, what a bunch of parvenus.  SIP got it from SMTP, SMTP got it from
> Telnet.  Back in the 1960s we all used <CR><LF> because on a
> mechanical model 33 or 35 Teletype, CR really returned the carriage,
> LF really advanced the platen, and you needed both.  I first ran into
> CR/LF on a PDP-6 in about 1968, but I know it wasn't new then.

Dates back to 1930s teleprinters, I think.

Tony.
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