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What is spooling?

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What is spooling?

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Acronym for simultaneous peripheral operations on-line spooling refers to putting jobs in a buffer a special area in memory or on a disk where a device can access them when it is ready. Spooling is useful because devices access data at different rates. The buffer provides a waiting station where data can rest while the slower device catches up.

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