Comment by rswail

For an OS that was being created specifically to process text, having the equivalent of CR being separate to LF to allow for overprinting would/should have been a requirement.

I'd say Multics/Unix was technically correct, except this was still the wrong decision for I/O ever since.

The Record Separator is the logical character code to use to indicate the end of a line of text and print position characters, assuming that a line of text is a "record".