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What is spooling in OS? |
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Answer» Spooling simply stands for Simultaneous peripheral operations online. It is referred to as putting data of various I/O JOBS in a buffer. Here, buffer means a special area in memory or hard disk that can be accessible to an I/O device. It is used for mediation between a computer application and a slow peripheral. It is very useful and important because devices ACCESS or acquire data at DIFFERENT rates. This operation also uses disk as a very large buffer and is capable of overlapping I/O operations for one task with processor operations for ANOTHER task. Useful Resource Operating System MCQ Practice Coding InterviewBit BLOG |
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