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IIRC it was initially employed for their payroll system to help print checks.
by Beermotor 3y ago
IIRC it was initially employed for their payroll system to help print checks.
- p_l 3y agoFirst commercial use in Bell Labs is usually credited as the secretarial pool for writing patent applications.
- somat 3y agoI always give an ironic chuckle when fighting the print system on a unix machine(lpd, lp, cups...) the internal rant that goes with it is something like. "Printing was THE original purpose, the reason for existence, of unix, you would think it would be a solved problem instead of the terrible mismatch of sins that it is."
- screechingbagel 3y agoprinting on unix in my experience is quite painless compared to windows for example, in my experience it just works :p