Comment by pjc50
10 years ago
It's not a bad idea, that's a print server or IP printer. But it's a modern system, and the print daemon architecture predates printers having their own microprocessors. It may even predate TCP.
10 years ago
It's not a bad idea, that's a print server or IP printer. But it's a modern system, and the print daemon architecture predates printers having their own microprocessors. It may even predate TCP.
The need to print documents predates Unix. :) Remember that the official excuse for getting a PDP-11 for developing Unix was to work on troff.