LPT /L-P-T/ or /lip'it/ or /lip-it'/ n.
1. Line
printer (originally Line Printing Terminal). Rare under Unix, more
common among hackers who grew up with ITS, MS-DOS, CP/M and other
operating systems that were strongly influenced by early DEC
conventions. 2. Local PorT. Used among MS-DOS programmers (and so
expanded in the MS-DOS 5 manual). It seems likely this is a
backronym.
1. Line
printer (originally Line Printing Terminal). Rare under Unix, more
common among hackers who grew up with ITS, MS-DOS, CP/M and other
operating systems that were strongly influenced by early DEC
conventions. 2. Local PorT. Used among MS-DOS programmers (and so
expanded in the MS-DOS 5 manual). It seems likely this is a
backronym.
Related:
- LPT: /L-P-T/ or /lip'it/ or /lip-it'/ n. Line printer,
of course. Rare under UNIX, more common among hackers... - MS-DOS:: /M-S-dos/ [MicroSoft Disk Operating System] n.
A {clone} of {{CP/M}} for the 8088 crufted together... - CP/M:: /C-P-M/ n. [Control Program for Microcomputers] An early
microcomputer {OS} written by hacker Gary Kildall for 8080-
and Z80-based machines, very popular in the late... - DEC /dek/ n.
1. v. Verbal (and only rarely
written) shorthand for decrement,
i.e. `decrease by one'. Especially used by assembly... - CP/M /C-P-M/ n.
[Control Program/Monitor; later
retconned to Control Program for Microcomputers] An early
microcomputer OS written by hacker Gary Kildall for 8080-
and Z80-based machines, very popular in the late... - MS-DOS /M-S-dos/ n.
[MicroSoft Disk Operating System] A
clone of CP/M for the 8088 crufted together in 6 weeks by
hacker Tim Paterson at Seattle Computer Products,
who called the original QDOS (Quick and Dirty Operating... - MS-DOS is CP/M on
steroids... - inflate vt.
To decompress or puff a file. Rare among
Internet hackers,
used primarily by MS-DOS/Windows types... - DEC: n. Digital Equipment Corporation. Before the {killer
micro} revolution of the late 1980s,
hackerdom was closely symbiotic with DEC's pioneering...
