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A Brief History of SPOOL
By Bill Manyin
SPOOL Definitions:
1) System Peripheral Operations OffLine
2) Simultaneous Peripheral Operations OnLine
PRIOR TO 1964 and IBM System/360 and System/360 Operating Systems, it was common for a mainframe to run only one user program at a time. Each user submitted […]