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WYSIWYG or "what you see is what you get" was used to refer to interface.
Before the user-friendly Windows interface, while working with the DOS
interface, (black screen at DOS prompt) you could not see what you were
going to get. Typically, you would type in commands, and then print to see
the results.
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