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> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Howard Brazee
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> [ snip ]
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> 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.
"Spool" can be context-sensitive: When one advances the throttle on a jet
engine, the response is known as "spool[ing] up".
Sewing thread can come on a "spool"....
-jc-
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