Originally Posted By: tsuwm
we hashed out that line printers didn't really print boustrophedonically. (they had to reverse the letters in the reversed path so you could actually read them! but still..)


Back when I was a kid, when line printers were line printers, they didn't print anything like boustrophedonically. They printed a whole line at once. They had 80 type wheels that lined up to the characters that were to be printed and then, Wham! they printed the whole line. Kids these days don't know what it was like back in the Golden Age.