On 13 Dec 2006 13:24:33 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ted MacNEIL) wrote: >>I know that's what IBM says it meant. >>I don't believe them, I think SPOOL always meant spool. > >I don't know about that. >The first time I heard it was in the mid-1970's (in University) and I was >told, then, that was what it stood for.
Me too. But since even then it meant "spool", it was obvious that it was retro-fitted into an acronym. >If it were to be coined today, it would be SPOO, since Online is now one word. They'd find some other "L" word to make it mean SPOOL. maybe: Simultaneous Peripheral Operations Online Leveling. Of course CoBOL doesn't fit the standard acronym bit of one letter per word. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
