How spooling work in operating system?

Answer 1

Spooling usually involves saving temporary data to memory or hard drive. A common use of spooling is to format a print job in the computer before sending it to the printer. The print spool holds data until the printer is ready to accept it.

Answer 2

its nothing but temporary storage of data in queue and make this data available to all devices which wants to share it and processed it.and spooling is the technique through which device get time to processed all the data which submitted to it.because user wants his/her works immediate but devices need some time to processed that data especially printer.so user can easily done his/her job by submitting all his data in the queue and this queue is responsible for providing data to devices after complete their jobs.

Answer 3

Spooling is putting jobs in a buffer area, whether in memory or on disk, where they can be accessed when a device is ready. For example, print jobs are spooled to a buffer to be printed when the printer is ready.

Answer 4

Spooling refers to a process of transferring data by placing it in a temporary working area where another program may access it for processing at a later point in time.