Historical question: LF vs. CR\LF in text files

[Guy Harris]

 >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....