* [COFF] The Muffer
2020-07-01 21:42 ` [COFF] The Muffer cym224
@ 2020-07-01 22:02 ` pi
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From: pi @ 2020-07-01 22:02 UTC (permalink / raw)
nemo nusquam, on 2020-07-01 17:42, wrote:
> The editor noted that their second name was heavily overused
> and suggested a third name, which the engineers accepted.
Neat piece of trivia, but I'm broken in some way where upon
reading this, my brain demands I drop everything until I learn
what that second discarded name was. If, like me, your curiosity
was piqued: it was "high-speed buffer."
Here's the full quote from page 417 of IBM's 360 and Early 370
Systems By Emerson W. Pugh, Lyle R. Johnson, John H. Palmer:
The local store, which had a standard capacity of 16 kilobytes,
figured heavily in three Model 85 papers submitted to the /IBM
Systems Journal/. Because /muffer/, Gibson's suggested term,
had not taken root, the submitted papers designated the local
store as a high-speed buffer, a name by then firmly embedded in
instruction manuals for the Model 85. The papers were nearly
ready for publication when the /Journal's/ editor contended
that the name was too shopworn to do justice to innovation. His
suggestion, /cache/, substituted with the consent of the
authors, was soon adopted throughout the industry.
best,
pi
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