On Mon, 19 Sep 2005 09:07:10 -0300, "Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>Does anyone remember where the term spooler comes from? SPOOL = >>simultaneous peripheral operations on line. The OS/360 Reader-Writer >> was the first multiprogramming capability that was released. > >SPOOL was available on the 7000 series and the 1410 long before >OS/360. Multiprogramming was available in the late 1950s or early >1960s, depending on whether you go by announcement dates or ship >dates. Every time I saw what SPOOL stood for, I laughed at the people who pretended that it was better to have an acronym than have it mean "spool". I wondered if it was for copyright purposes, and whether that would hold up in court. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
