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lpt

lpt

 

  3  definitions  found 
 
  From  Jargon  File  (4.2.3,  23  NOV  2000)  [jargon]: 
 
  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}. 
 
 
 
  From  The  Free  On-line  Dictionary  of  Computing  (13  Mar  01)  [foldoc]: 
 
  LPT 
 
  /L-P-T/  or  /lip'it/  or  /lip-it'/  Line  printer.  Rare  under 
  {Unix},  more  common  among  hackers  who  grew  up  with  {ITS}, 
  {MS-DOS},  {CP/M}  and  other  {operating  system}s  that  were 
  strongly  influenced  by  early  {DEC}  conventions. 
 
  [{Jargon  File}] 
 
 
 
  From  V.E.R.A.  --  Virtual  Entity  of  Relevant  Acronyms  13  March  2001  [vera]: 
 
  LPT 
  Line  PrinTer