Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!uwvax!oddjob!gargoyle!ihnp4!chinet!blair 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 Article-I.D.: chinet.1923 Posted: Mon Nov 30 08:54:48 1987 Date-Received: Thu, 3-Dec-87 04:59:27 EST References: <10376@brl-adm.ARPA> <16550@topaz.rutgers.edu> <388@cogen.UUCP> <3811@ptsfa.UUCP> <264@splut.UUCP> Reply-To: blair@chinet.UUCP (Douglas M. Blair) Organization: Chinet - Public Access Unix Lines: 10 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