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spooling

  • Also known as: Simultaneous Peripheral Operations Online

Putting jobs in a buffer, a special area in memory, or on a disk where a device can access them when the device 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.