According tithe article, it wasn’t even true. FTA: “Early operating system designers had to adopt some "end-of-line" convention using CR and LF; some used LF,

According tithe article, it wasn’t even true. FTA: “Early operating system designers had to adopt some "end-of-line" convention using CR and LF; some used LF, some used CR, and some used a two-octet sequence: LF CR or CR LF.” ⇒ OSes that used CR LF didn’t have to do that translation.