[zaarn]

Actually, I had to work with a line printer that didn't handle CR-LF but LF-CR. The printer was designed to have people rip of paper cleanly and the easiest way to do that is to have a button that locks the printer head on the left side, which causes it to engage a gearing on the line feeder which prevents it from moving. That allows a human to press the button and rip of the paper. The process was fairly fast and without it the linefeed would slip and you would rip out half of the paper from under the printer head. Unfortunately this also means if you issue a CR-LF you will first hear the printer head moving and then a jamming noise from the line feed followed by the printer blowing a fuse.

So any device that uses it usually requires a special adapter that converts CR-LF to LF-CR otherwise the printer could be damaged and buffers input while the printhead lock the linefeed.

The device was to my knowledge not very popular, incredibly old and irreplaceable as part of a legacy application written for an old 8bit computer system.