Your computer processes data, stores it, and sends it to different peripherals and output devices. Computer science uses a few terms specific to this type of process: spooling, buffering and caching.

To understand spooling, think of it as the process of reeling a document or task list onto a spool, like thread, so it can be unreeled at a more convenient time. Spooling is useful because devices ...

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