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From: wel@homxc.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: RE: UNIX NAME ABBREVIATIONS
Message-ID: <2276@homxc.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 24-Nov-87 21:45:25 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov 24 21:45:25 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 <1886@celtics.UUCP>, roger@celtics.UUCP (Roger B.A. Klorese) writes:
> 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.

Funny story about HASP. When NASA was still brainstorming it in its infancy,
IBM got wind of their intentions (it was developed on the early 360s, when
these beasts had no spooler), called them up and, in effect, said "Great Idea!
How long do you think it'll take you to write it?", to which NASA apparently
responded "Four months", which was countered by IBM with "Well how about if we
send you some of our guys to help? How long do you think it'd take you then?"
and trumped with "Nine months".

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