One would think the whole LFCR discussion would have been documented and saved throughout the decades. One should really be warned about thinking. Despite what you will read in Google’s always right <cough><cough><hack><hack> AI as well as other places online, way more than Acorn BBC Micro use LFCR for line endings in text files. During the heyday of Midrange computers it was the wild wild west. Lots of names you don’t hear anymore, DEC, Singer, … LF CR LFCR and CRLF Because it Keeps Coming UpRead more
FORTRAN
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IV For A Dead Horse
This morning I got an email about bug 37134 from the LibreOffice bug tracker. They flagged it as spam. Up until you got to the link it wasn’t spam. It did serve as a good reminder to me about just how long this bug has been open. I felt compelled to offer the developers some sage advice given my 40+ years in IT. LibreOffice is a Legacy Product Please click on the link and take … IV For A Dead HorseRead more
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Business/Enterprise Class Computing
We now have a generation of kids who never worked on real computers, only x86 platforms; so Business Class Computing needs to be explained. This all started with an exchange I had on the qt-interest list with someone I respect. -Text isn’t a stream. Katepart would disagree. part of the exchange, their response to my previous message I run into this a lot when people have only worked on x86 based platforms or Unix. They … Business/Enterprise Class ComputingRead more