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From: jack@swlabs.UUCP (Jack Bonn)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: UNIX NAME ABBREVIATIONS
Message-ID: <1051@swlabs.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 22-Nov-87 19:19:20 EST
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Posted: Sun Nov 22 19:19:20 1987
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References: <10376@brl-adm.ARPA> <16550@topaz.rutgers.edu> <388@cogen.UUCP> <1886@celtics.UUCP>
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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.

I agree.  I thought spool referred to the spool of magtape that you hung 
to collect the line printer data for later.  Remember magtapes?
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Jack Bonn, <> Software Labs, Ltd, Box 451, Easton CT  06612
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