[Info-vax] RMS intro

[mjos_examine]

On 2023-12-31 2:43 a.m., John Dallman wrote:
> Good work. You might want to explain why StreamCR is provided: I doubt it
> is because of traditional Mac format, because VMS predates Mac by several
> years. Was it used by older DEC OSes?

According to a couple of search hits, the Apple II used CR line ending 
before the Mac did.

You could save space on those 360K 5¼ floppy disks by eliminating the LF 
on every line in a text file. ;-)

Here's one reference:

  "... and Classic MacOS inherited the CR line ending convention from 
ProDOS on the Apple II (and presumably SOS on the Apple ///, which was 
the genesis of ProDOS.)"

https://stardot.org.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?p=381225&sid=5b7d6dac7407c615aaad1c711fa3fda9#p381225

That would be somewhere after 1980 (Apple /// SOS).