In
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
on 09/20/2005
at 09:29 AM, Doc Farmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>SPOOL
>s(imultaneous) p(eripheral) o(perations) o(n) l(ine).
I don't believe that anybody disputes that. The reel (sic) <g> issue
is whether back in the 1950s they had first decided to use the word
and only then came up with an acronym to justify it.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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