From: Chris Mason I seem to remember SPOOL meant "Simultaneous Peripheral
Operations On Line"
I think we all acknowledge that SPOOL was contrived
to mean "Simultaneous Peripheral Operations On Line".
The doubt expressed within this thread relates to whether
anyone ever really thought of it as an acronym or
were we merely using the English noun/verb with
the same connotation.
From: Chris Mason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: Re: Decimal FP (was: vendor JCL)
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 06:07:08 +0100
Howard
I seem to remember SPOOL meant "Simultaneous Peripheral Operations On Line"
as far back as the late '60s, this being the limit of my knowledge of such
matters and so it could be even older.
That being said, only the "gray beards" in the list are going to be
authorities on this one - of course, you could be one.
Chris Mason
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> 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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