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They should have stuck with Armorica and avoided a lot of confusion. Of course it was populated in a large part by Britons. I guess Breton is dying out rapidly and they've become resigned to being French.

In Word, blank lines between paragraphs are likely to be formatting, not actual newline characters.

Somewhere on the Home tab there's an icon that looks like the paragraph symbol. You can click on it to display the location of paragraph breaks and other invisible formatting elements.

Cindy Hamilton

Actually there is a newline character for each paragraph.The problem is I was writing using the double space function (the default), so when I press enter, I get what looks like two blank lines. But when copied and pasted into a non-wordprocessor, it can become a single new line instead of two, so the paragraphs all run together.

They forgot a key problem. Americans are too thick to drive.

But they have to have guns to protect themselves from the others with guns. I guess they never heard of "circular argument".

I thought Aussies used proper British spelling? Tire means you ran out of energy. Tyre is a rubber ring on a wheel.

You mean you don't have those f****ng speed cameras everywhere like in the UK?

Note that Schweitzer was a Democrat but Montana Democrats are a bit different. I assume they have them up the ass in California but since my brother died I have no reason to go there.

My sister's friend called her dog "bawbag", which is Scottish for, well you can guess. Amusing when she needs to call for it in a public park apparently.

Nobody gives a f*ck. We just say UK, Britain, whatever.

But is America the USA or the continent? Although judging by that video I linked to, country and continent are the same word in your language.

They aren't imported. The first French car to leave the US market was the Citroen. They got out in '74 for a variety of reasons. I think most of it was the DS didn't have a prayer of meeting the safety regulations and it wasn't worthwhile to make a compliant model

Renault lasted until about 1987. At one time I had a Renault Alliance rental and it wasn't a bad little econobox. However, Renault's adventure with AMC was a loser. Chrysler bought them out to get the Jeep but had no interest in the rest of the line. Besse, the guy who was really interested in the US market was assassinated by the Action Directe so Renault was all to happy to dump AMC.

They are sort of, kind of, in the US via the Renault-Nissan mix.

iirc Peugeot left in 1991. The 405 just didn't sell in the US. The Japs owned the small car market by then. My brother had a 404 he really liked but even then it was an off brand without a lot of support.

Supposedly Peugeot is coming back but with the price of gasoline down I don't think that will work. I don't know how that fits with the Fiat Chrysler / Groupe PSA merger. PSA has Peugeot, Citroen, and Opel/Vauxhall.

Opel made a minimal appearance in the US but GM didn't know what to do with it. I use one as a landmark. It's an orange Open GT parked at the corner of a street that goes to a trailhead. It hasn't moved in years afaik. They really were nice cars but GM had its head up its ass.

I have seen a Vauxhall Victor in the flesh. Before the '70s regulations strange cars would wind up in the US. A friend's father had a Humber Super Snipe. He probably thought he could pass it off as a bargain basement Bentley or something. MG's, Austin-Healeys, and Triumph sports cars were relatively common but not British sedans.

It will be interesting to see what PSA does with the Dodge Challenger/Charger line. They're not exactly Greta Thunberg approved rides.

That's a good way to piss off the Canucks. North America includes Canada, Mexico, and technically the stuff between Mexico and South America although that's usually called Central America.

That said, 'American' means the United States of America for most intents. Even though they like to point out they're technically Americans I think most Canadians would prefer not to be grouped with the US. They have their own problem called Trudeau. Likewise I think the Mexicans are just as happy being Mexicans.

Back about 10 years or so we went to Italy for a few weeks. The car rental company gave us a Citroen. My first thought was it is an ugly POS. Turned out to be a pretty decent ride. May have been a C3 or similar. Going back to the 50s and 60s they made some really ugly cars.

I looked at an used DS, maybe in '71. Despite being young and stupid, I wasn't that stupid. They had very intricate hydraulic systems and in the early years used vegetable based oils that were hygroscopic, which were easily contaminated, leading to seal failures. Of course, you could just pop down to NAPA for a new set...

They switched to a mineral based oil that was much better but it wasn't DOT approved so that was a barrier. They also went to a really sophisticated headlight system that swiveled and had an aerodynamic glass cover. As in a recent thread, progress like that was verboten in the technologically advance US regs. Advanced for 1940, that is. Then there was the bumper height regs. That's when they said the hell with it and retreated to France. They never sold that many in the US anyway.

What I wouldn't mind having would be a Traction Avant. They are seriously cool rides and were innovative if not as space age as the DS. Citroen had went bankrupt during the initial development and Michelin took them over. Michelin used them as project cars, particularly for radial tire design.

Microsoft didn't make that decision. It emulates CP/M, which bearing in mind it ran in about 16k made the sensible decision that what was in a file should be exactly what is sent to the serially attached terminal which CP/M systems had at the time. Those terminals require a CR to move the cursor to the left margin, and a LF to move it to the next line (possibly scrolling the display).

Graphics cards came later. MUCH later.

Andy

Interesting that UNIX chose to make \n do both the jobs (newline and carriage-return). CP/M was released in 1974, whereas UNIX was developed from

Thankfully a lot of modern UNIX implementations and programs (*) seem to be able to read \n and \r\n text files with equal ease, though I'm not sure whether they always write back as \n.

(*) eg Leafpad on Raspbian and the equivalent on Ubuntu.

I'm not sure Unix had even been ported from a PDP-7 to a PDP-11 when CP/M got rolling. Unix didn't get off the ground very gracefully. It tended to slither from universities out into the wild before it could be legally obtained.

\n versus \r\n is a design decision. Do you interpret \n at runtime and expand it if needed for the device, or just pump out what the teletype expected?

Still a few available

No. First IBM micro had a graphics card.Ram above 640k reserved for it=>

"IBM initially offered two video adapters for the PC, the Color/Graphics Adapter and the Monochrome Display and Printer Adapter. CGA was intended to be a typical home computer display; it had NTSC output and could be connected to a composite monitor or a TV set with an RF modulator in addition to RGB for digital RGBI-type monitors, although IBM did not offer their own RGB monitor until 1983. Supported graphics modes were 40 or 80×25 color text with 8×8 character resolution, 320×200 bitmap graphics with two fixed 4-color palettes, or 640×200 monochrome graphics.

The MDA card and its companion 5151 monitor supported only 80×25 text with a 9×14 character resolution (total pixel resolution was 720×350). It was mainly intended for the business market and so also included a printer port. "

CP/M ran on serial, yes, but not the IBM micro for which PC/MS-DOS was developed

DOS was pretty much CP/M ripped off for an 8086 platform

No, it did not. CP/M was a rip off of an intel microprocessor system

Unix was starting to take off in the late 1970s. MSDOS didnt arrive until the early 80s

Its all convention. many serial terminals dont accept just \n so there are variuous ways to make unis send CR/LF if thats what you want it to do.

Termcap and friends

Printers have alwyas needed CR/LF and unix can be made to insert the CR on those as well.