SPOOLING is the acronym for Simultaneous Peripheral Operations On-line. It refers to putting jobs in a memory buffer, and allowing devices to access the data in the order of its place in the queue. It is used because devices access data at different rates.
This allows for sending and processing jobs at different times, and one does not have to wait for the job to finish before sending another. It is used most widely in a network environment where there's many to one resources on a device, and the use of spooling to pool the resources for the one device.
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