In <[email protected]>, on 02/07/2013
at 05:27 PM, "Joel C. Ewing" <[email protected]> said:
>The Wood history of HASP/JES2 left hanging the question about the
>origin of the term "spooling".
Do you consider SPOOL System, 7070-IO-076 to be of sufficient
antiquity?
'"SPOOL" has become a common verb, but originally was itself an
acronym signifying Simultaneous Peripheral Operations On Line. This
acronym originated with the 7070 computer, which had a system of
interrupts that let one program a peripheral activity (e.g.,
card-to-tape, tape-to-print, tape-to-card) while a main program was
running.' (Dictionary of IBM Jargon, Tenth Edition)
>Since early "spooling" systems staged unit records to a spool of
>magnetic tape,
I've only seen reels of tape called spools in an audio or TV context;
prior to cartridges and MSS the terms I heard were "reel" and "tape
volume".
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