Article: BUFFERS, SPOOLERS PROVE A PRACTICAL REMEDY FOR LASER PRINTING

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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