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From: rcl@jolt.columbia.edu (Robert C. Lehman)
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Subject: Re: SIL
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Date: 20 Sep 88 13:58:20 GMT
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In article <1218@imagine.PAWL.RPI.EDU> hillm () writes:
>Could someone please resolve a question that's been plaguing us here?
>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".  As an aside, which was the last
version fo RSTS that required DOS/BATCH-11 to build a "CIL"?  Was it
5C also?

-Rob