[COFF] The Muffer

[cym224 at gmail.com (nemo nusquam)]

In 1966, Engineers at IBM invented a method of speeding up execution
without adding a lot of very expensive memory.  They called their
invention the muffer.  The name did not catch on so they picked another
name and submitted an article to the IBM System J.  The editor noted
that their second name was heavily overused and suggested a third name,
which the engineers accepted.  The third name was cache.
(Muffer was short for memory buffer.)

This from "IBM's 360 and Early 370 Systems", MIT Press.  I found this
an amusing tidbit of history -- hopefully so may others.

N.