David Wright wrote: >> >> And the year is 1998 :D > > You can go back two more decades. I recall writing a stand-alone > program to print a learned society's mailing labels on a Decwriter. > For me it was an exercise, as I had only written OS360/370 assembler > to extend FortranIV until then. For the subscription secretary, it > enabled a faster turnround as we didn't have to persuade the operators > to load sticky labels on their busy lineprinters. Less waste too: > I still have clean fanfold labels that they jettisoned after lining > up the lineprinters all those years ago.
around 1998 you could already print with other tools than lpr or lprng. When I listen to you guys I have a respect, but you must understand that time goes on - this is like advertising Mercedes Benz from 1930 and telling me how cool this car was ... well might be, might be, but no one needs this anymore - except the museum. So I just wanted to make a joke :) In fact if you want to read such posts more often you should subscribe to RPi mailing list comp.sys.raspberry-pi. It's mostly like this - very little epistemological benefit for the reader, but amusing.
