Re: [COFF] The Muffer

nemo nusquam, on 2020-07-01 17:42, wrote: 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 -- _ / \ A* \^ - ,./ _.`\\ / \ / ,--.S \/ \ / `"~,_ \ \ __o ? _ \<,_ /:\ --(_)/-(_)----.../ | \ --------------.......J Paul Ivanov https://pirsquared.org | GPG/PGP key id: 0x0F3E28F7