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Article: BUFFERS, SPOOLERS PROVE A PRACTICAL REMEDY FOR LASER PRINTING
- Article from:
- THE JOURNAL RECORD
- Article date:
- June 10, 1987
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NEW YORK - An endless stream of new words and concepts bombards the
computer user.
Once you become familiar with the prompt, the cursor, fields,
cells, line wrap, unerase and other terms basic to the running
programs such as spreadsheets, database managers and word processors,
you begin to feel fairly conversant with techno-babel. You may even
drop a phrase or two at cocktail parties.
Then the technology changes or electronic needs expand and it's
back to the computer school of hard knocks simply to be able use
what's offered in the field.
Two concepts becoming both more commonplace and more confusing
are spooling and buffering. Both have been around for some time.
Buffers, in ...
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