print v.
To output, even if to a screen. If a hacker says that a
program "printed a message", he means this; if he refers to
printing a file, he probably means it in the conventional sense
of writing to a hardcopy device (compounds like `print job' and
`printout', on the other hand, always refer to the latter). This
very common term is likely a holdover from the days when printing
terminals were the norm, perpetuated by programming language
constructs like C's printf(3). See senses
1 and 2 of tty.
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printing discussion n.
[XEROX PARC] A protracted, low-level, time-consuming,
generally pointless discussion of something only peripherally
interesting to all.
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priority interrupt n.
[from the hardware term] Describes any stimulus compelling
enough to yank one right out of hack
mode. Classically used to describe being dragged away by
an SO for immediate sex, but may also
refer to more mundane interruptions such as a fire alarm going
off in the near vicinity. Also called an NMI (non-maskable interrupt), especially in
PC-land.