2010-05-28

Steve Gibson is wrong, wrong, wrong

Steve Gibson claimed in the podcast Security Now, episode 250, that spool used as a verb (as in printer spooling) is not a normal verb, but is an acronym.

Wikipedia starts with the same information, but note "backronym" in the following from Spooling:

"According to Tanenbaum, "Spool" is an acronym for simultaneous peripheral operations on-line[1] (though others may consider this a backronym), or as for printers: simultaneous peripheral output on line."

I asked about this at iRosetta and Donald Remero disagrees with Steve Gibson in his answer.

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