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From: roger@celtics.UUCP (Roger B.A. Klorese)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: RE: UNIX NAME ABBREVIATIONS
Message-ID: <1886@celtics.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 22-Nov-87 16:03:41 EST
Article-I.D.: celtics.1886
Posted: Sun Nov 22 16:03:41 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 24-Nov-87 06:45:43 EST
References: <10376@brl-adm.ARPA> <16550@topaz.rutgers.edu> <388@cogen.UUCP> <6706@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Reply-To: roger@celtics.UUCP (Roger B.A. Klorese)
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In article <6706@brl-smoke.ARPA> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>) writes:
>In article <388@cogen.UUCP> alen@cogen.UUCP (Alen Shapiro) writes:
>>		  "spool" (Simultaneous Peripheral Operation Off Line)
>I suspect this is revisionist acronym retrofitting.

Could be... but the acronym is quite old, IBM's originally.

By the way, HASP = Houston Automated Spooling Program... a nested acronym.
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