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Buffering vs Spooling
Buffering Spooling
The buffer is
a limited Spool uses
area in the the disk as a
main huge buffer.
memory.
Buffering Spooling
Spooling can
handle the I/O of
Buffering handles one job along
I/O of one job with the
along with its computation of
computation. another job at the
same time.
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