The article described the move as a step backwards. Best quote from the comments.

"On a mechanical typewriter when you pull the lever you get an LF first then a CR. So Windows is already backwards."

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/05/notepad-gets-a-major-upgrade-now-does-unix-line-endings/

If I remember correctly from the 11-780 days, when I hit return the cursor went to the left edge of the stream, and when the shell finished launching the command I'd typed, it went to the next line.

When it was slow, you knew that it was taking time loading. For example, if you just told it to load emacs (;-))

--dave

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