Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site ecsvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!mcnc!ecsvax!hes From: hes@ecsvax.UUCP (Henry Schaffer) Newsgroups: net.micro.68k,net.micro.amiga Subject: Re: OS9 on Amiga Message-ID: <508@ecsvax.UUCP> Date: Mon, 30-Sep-85 22:09:57 EDT Article-I.D.: ecsvax.508 Posted: Mon Sep 30 22:09:57 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 3-Oct-85 03:44:01 EDT References: <576@sftig.UUCP> <1001@bnl44.UUCP> <2011@amdahl.UUCP> <1005@bnl44.UUCP> <2248@ukma.UUCP> Organization: NC State Univ. Lines: 16 Xref: watmath net.micro.68k:1173 net.micro.amiga:283 > 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")