Apparently it's from 1901 (Murray code) or 1932 (ITA2).
The fact that both Apple's and CP/M codes came out roughly at the same time, both on microcomputers, shows that it was probably just a design decision.
rswail said ASCII, which definitely pre-dated Unix, not the other way around. And there was some to and fro about the equivalence of LineFeed and NewLine in the 1960s.
CRLR is Baudot, predating UNIX by what, a century ?
Apparently it's from 1901 (Murray code) or 1932 (ITA2).
The fact that both Apple's and CP/M codes came out roughly at the same time, both on microcomputers, shows that it was probably just a design decision.
rswail said ASCII, which definitely pre-dated Unix, not the other way around. And there was some to and fro about the equivalence of LineFeed and NewLine in the 1960s.