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Re:The Evolution of the Unix Time-Sharing System by Dennis M... by somat on Wednesday July 05, 2023 @03:26PM (#36605787)
I 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."

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Re:The Evolution of the Unix Time-Sharing System by Dennis M... by screechingbagel on Wednesday July 05, 2023 @06:12PM (#36607908)
printing on unix in my experience is quite painless compared to windows for example, in my experience

it just works :p

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