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EOL terminology is also related to fire alarm systems. It is the end of line resistor that is in each pull station loop. It is used to put a load on the circuit so that each circuit draws a current. This in turn is how a trouble is monitored, if the circuit gets opened a trouble alarm will sound notifying maintenance that the circuit is inoperative. First thing which I am familiar with, which kinda goes back to the "older" days, is that EOL = End Of line. The term is largely archaic outside the bounds of mainframes.

For home computers, the "EOL" is usually "LF"+"CR", or linefeed (advance to next line) + CR (archaic but still in use - Carriage Return, which moves the cursor to the beginning of the line), thus "LF+CR" is used most often in DOS and Windows applications while some applications and/or operating systems treat just the "CR" to mean both... Go to next line AND go to the beginning.... basically the exact way the CR on a typewriter works. Hitting "CR" on a typewriter both advances the paper one line, and moves the carriage, or "typing spot" to column one.

Wow, the old days... heheh

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