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Actually, I believe that the origination is even older than that. IIRC, shortly after the Telegraph was put into operation across the country, it was decided that a record of what was received would be nice, and could be checked later for accuracy of translation and also for legal purposes. A device was invented that would transcribe the dots and dashes of Morse code onto a paper tape and that tape was then taken up on a receiving 'spool' . These 'spooled' messages would then be stored in case they needed to be reviewed later. > -----Original Message----- > From: Simon Coulter [SMTP:shc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Friday, May 23, 2003 8:59 AM > To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion > Subject: Re: Grabbing wrong spool file > > > Hello Booth, > > You wrote: > >Simon, you'd know. I thought SPOOLED was an acronym? > > I'm not sure anyone knows. The history of the the word spool in the > context of > computer output is muddied to say the least. I believe it was originally > used > to describe tape output (hence spooled to tape) and later was retro-fitted > into > an acronym. Something like Simultaneous Peripheral Output On Line or some > such > rubbish. > > Regards, > Simon Coulter. > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > FlyByNight Software AS/400 Technical Specialists > > http://www.flybynight.com.au/ > Phone: +61 3 9419 0175 Mobile: +61 0411 091 400 /"\ > Fax: +61 3 9419 0175 mailto: shc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx \ / > X > ASCII Ribbon campaign against HTML E-Mail / \ >
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