Interesting web page! Despite many years of using ASCII and knowing some of the more common control codes, I had never even thought about what the other mysterious 0-31 codes were defined as.
Something that the page doesn't mention is that CR+LF were originally two separate control codes because the action of returning the print head to the left hand side would take too long with a standard line printer. Therefore, separating the actions into two codes meant that the printer would not miss out any printable characters.
(At least, I read that somewhere on the internet and assumed it was true!)
Something that the page doesn't mention is that CR+LF were originally two separate control codes because the action of returning the print head to the left hand side would take too long with a standard line printer. Therefore, separating the actions into two codes meant that the printer would not miss out any printable characters.
(At least, I read that somewhere on the internet and assumed it was true!)