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From: hes@ecsvax.UUCP (Henry Schaffer)
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Subject: Re: OS9 on Amiga
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Date: Mon, 30-Sep-85 22:09:57 EDT
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> In article <1005@bnl44.UUCP> jpm@bnl44.UUCP (John McNamee) writes:
> >Printing while doing something else is best calling SPOOLING, ...
> 
> Printing while doing something else is multitasking.  Spooling isn't the
> operation of printing, it is the process of queueing files to print.
> 
> -  Sean Casey                           UUCP:   sean@ukma.UUCP   or

SPOOL is an acronym for Simultaneous Peripheral Operation On-Line, and so
does apply to printing while a(nother) program is running.  (So it is a special
case of multitasking- with only one user task, and the rest spool tasks,
which can also include other operation of peripherals.)  Because of this
association, queueing files to disk to print is often also called
"spooling" them.
--henry schaffer
("not that even a small circle of friends would care")