Posted: November 21st, 1984, 11:20 pm
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Date: Sun, 21-Oct-84 02:51:10 EDT
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Posted: Sun Oct 21 02:51:10 1984
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From: Dave Fuchs
Let's be historically accurate: The original meaning of "spool" was
"simultaneous peripheral operation >> OFF > that couldn't handle multi-tasking <<
were no longer mostly idle when printing. Only later, when mass disk
storage became cheaper and such things as interrupts and context-switching
were invented did "spool" take on the newer meaning. It's interesting to
note that the Macintosh does seem to fulfill the requirements of the
earlier definition but not the later.
-david
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From: info-mac@uw-beaver (info-mac)
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Date: Sun, 21-Oct-84 02:51:10 EDT
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Posted: Sun Oct 21 02:51:10 1984
Date-Received: Tue, 16-Oct-84 06:29:49 EDT
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From: Dave Fuchs
Let's be historically accurate: The original meaning of "spool" was
"simultaneous peripheral operation >> OFF > that couldn't handle multi-tasking <<
were no longer mostly idle when printing. Only later, when mass disk
storage became cheaper and such things as interrupts and context-switching
were invented did "spool" take on the newer meaning. It's interesting to
note that the Macintosh does seem to fulfill the requirements of the
earlier definition but not the later.
-david