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From: kurtzman@pollux.usc.edu (Stephen Kurtzman)
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Subject: Re: SIL
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Date: 23 Sep 88 13:27:55 GMT
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In article <5897@columbia.edu> rcl@jolt.cc.columbia.edu (Robert C. Lehman) writes:
>In article <1218@imagine.PAWL.RPI.EDU> hillm () writes:
>>What exactly does the abbreviation SIL stand for?
>
>I'm pretty sure it stands for "System Image Library".  Once upon a
>time (up through V5C?) the monitor had an extension of ".CIL", which
>stood for "Core Image Library".

SIL stands for SAV Image Library. 

CIL comes from the system builds under DOS. Several "Core Image" files would
be created and then collected together under in a CIL "Core Image Library".
With 6B and later, system builds were done under the RT11 emulator. Since
the files created by the RT11 linker are ".SAV" or "save" files the new
collection of files was called a SIL or "Save Image Library".

I know it all seems SILUS, but someone asked the question.