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

[Peter da Silva]

In article <2323 at borabora.omni.com> bob at omni.com (Bob Weissman) writes:
> The old TENEX operating system used ^_ (\037) as the end of line
> character.  What a pain that was!

That almost makes sense: that's Unit Seperator in ASCII. By an odd
co-incidence, that's the character generated by the "NEW LINE" key on
my old Intel terminal.
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