Word: spooled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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During this period, writers composed articles by hand and gave them to a hired typist, who entered the stories into a device which encoded each letter as a sequence of punched holes on a spool of paper. The spool was then fed into a special printer, which decoded the punched holes and churned out a column of text...
...stick of butter or a spool ofthread in the Square," says Paul Corcoran, ownerof the Harvard Shop...
...incoming e-mail to "fas" is stored on a spool, which is in essence one large mailbox for all undergraduates. Each student's inbox is represented as one file on the spool, and there is no limit to the size of any particular inbox...
There are about 10,000 user accounts on "fas," and over 2000 megabytes of disk space are dedicated to the mail spool. If too many individual users unwittingly let their inboxes grow without deleting or filing old mail, the overall mail spool may fill to capacity (currently it hovers around 87 percent). A full mail spool means that nobody's incoming mail can be stored--and thus the e-mail system comes to a screeching halt...
...mail spool should be thought of as a scarce resource. If we all do our share by keeping our inboxes as small as possible, we will all benefit from a more efficient e-mail system...