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From: blair@chinet.UUCP (Douglas M. Blair)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: UNIX NAME ABBREVIATIONS
Message-ID: <1923@chinet.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 30-Nov-87 08:54:48 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov 30 08:54:48 1987
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Reply-To: blair@chinet.UUCP (Douglas M. Blair)
Organization: Chinet - Public Access Unix
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Summary: "SPOOL" dates from WW1


Don't want you folks to think that spool is a modern term. I have a
manual from a World War One vintage teletype (Model 15) which clearly
uses the term "spool" to refer to the practice of allowing incoming
traffic (from MORSE or BAUDOT code) accumulate on a spool of paper
tape, which could then be fed into the tape reader on a printer.
How soon we forget :-)

Doug Blair
312-653-5527  ...ihnp4!chinet!obdient!blair