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It's because CRT displays draw from top to bottom, right?
by retromagik 2y ago
It's because CRT displays draw from top to bottom, right?
- taeric 2y agoLargely that seems to be the consensus, yes.
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- gweinberg 2y agoI think it's more because printers (used to) print going down. I don;t see why it would matter in the least that crts draw the top first, if that is indeed the case. But for old printers where the paper is continuous, down is "forward" and there is no going back.
- taeric 2y agoI think the printers and the old monitors reason are basically the same? Scanlines used to be a "you have now to set this pixel, if you missed it, you get next scan." It is an oddly accurate mental model to think of the screen as printing an image every scan.