On 02/07/2013 02:15 PM, Ed Finnell wrote:
Chip Wood put together a nice summary for HASP's 40th birthday celebration
at SHARE 109 (AUG 2007). You should be able to pull that one from the
proceedings.
I did find one thing that might be what you were looking for. It was an
old
DOS WordPerfect document that I just converted to a text file, since I
don't
think that I have any way to convert it to a properly formatted PDF file.
The Wood history of HASP/JES2 left hanging the question about the origin
of the term "spooling". Various authorities credit SPOOL as being an
acronym for either Simultaneous Peripheral Output On-Line or
Simultaneous Peripheral Operations On-Line, used to describe a process
which pre-dated S/360 by at least half a decade where card images and/or
print lines were staged through much faster I/O devices (magnetic tape
in the old days) to keep slow printers and card equipment from being a
bottleneck on expensive mainframes of the day.
This acronym always seemed a tad too cute. Since early "spooling"
systems staged unit records to a spool of magnetic tape, it would have
been natural to refer to this process as "spooling", which makes me
suspect that was the inspiration for someone to invent SPOOL as a
backronym to fit, and allow continued use of the term after spools of
tape were no longer the staging media.
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Joel C. Ewing, Bentonville, AR [email protected]
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