At 08:36 PM 8/9/00 +0100, Philip Hazel wrote:
>AFAIK, the word "spool" was first widely used for the S in HASP,
>originally a bolt-on to IBM's OS/360, where the spool stored input and
>output in transit. Maybe we need another word. Now, back in the 60's
>there was a system that had a "well" that did this kind of thing. No,
>maybe not. Maybe I've been around too long... :-)
you're not the only one. i just took my old hasp manual (along with all my
other OS/360 documentation) to the dump the other day.
cheers,
richard
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