[[{“value”:”In my 37 years of working with IBM midrange, and especially IBM i and its predecessors, I learned something new that has blown my mind.
Spool as in “spool file” is an acronym!
I have always thought that “spool” was the queue of spool files on an output queue. A long list of spool files would be like piece of thread from a spool of thread. It turns out my assumption is wrong.
I have Alan Seiden to thank for bringing this to my attention.
It turns out the definition of a “spool” is:
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