In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 09/20/2005 at 09:29 AM, Doc Farmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>SPOOL >s(imultaneous) p(eripheral) o(perations) o(n) l(ine). I don't believe that anybody disputes that. The reel (sic) <g> issue is whether back in the 1950s they had first decided to use the word and only then came up with an acronym to justify it. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html> We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress. (S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html