Comment by Joker_vD

Yeah, Macs IIRC just stored the keyboard input instead (the Enter key generates CR, which is also an old and venerable tradition, that's why there is ICRNL flag for the terminal input).

Obviously, in a perfect world we would have a single NL character for storing in text files in memory/on disk/in transit, and terminals would use entirely different CR and IND control codes, and internally translate NL to CR+IND combination when printing text, and send NL to the host as the keycode of the Enter key when it's pressed. Alas, that train has sailed long ago (and let's not even start on choosing BS versus DEL).