Howard I seem to remember SPOOL meant "Simultaneous Peripheral Operations On Line" as far back as the late '60s, this being the limit of my knowledge of such matters and so it could be even older.
That being said, only the "gray beards" in the list are going to be authorities on this one - of course, you could be one. Chris Mason ----- Original Message ----- From: "Howard Brazee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, 13 December, 2006 4:40 PM Subject: Re: Decimal FP (was: vendor JCL) > On 13 Dec 2006 04:56:41 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Shmuel > Metz , Seymour J.) wrote: > > >>Don't use acronyms at all. Make up a new word (is CICS still an > >>acronym (or has it gone the way LASER went)? Was SPOOL *ever* an > >>acronym?) > > > >Simultaneous Peripheral Operations On Line. > > I know that's what IBM says it meant. I don't believe them, I think > SPOOL always meant spool. > > Anybody ever spell it out the way Americans tend to spell out CICS? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
