On 13 Dec 2006 04:56:41 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Shmuel
Metz , Seymour J.) wrote:

>>Don't use acronyms at all.   Make up a new word (is CICS still an
>>acronym (or has it gone the way LASER went)?   Was SPOOL *ever* an
>>acronym?)
>
>Simultaneous Peripheral Operations On Line.

I know that's what IBM says it meant.   I don't believe them, I think
SPOOL always meant spool.

Anybody ever spell it out the way Americans tend to spell out CICS?

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