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.

Modern operating systems, including Windows 7, allow you to send multiple business documents to your printer. The documents, formatted for printing, are stored on your hard disk, and the printer ...

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 ...