On 2020-11-01 12:39, Doug McGarrett wrote:
I don't think it's originally a windows term. It's actually "LPT
#1", similar to the following "Serial Port #1". "LPT" stands for
"line printer" for those of us old enough to remember when printers
could only do lines of text.
I wonder what it was called back in the UNIX days?
According to The Waite Group's UNIX Primer Plus, Second Edition, it was
called lpr, for line printer.
--doug
That would explain things!
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