During idle periods, the operating system’s __________ module reads data from such slow devices as terminal keyboards and stores them on a highspeed medium such as disk. Later, when the program is loaded, its input data can be read from high-speed disk.
a. dispatching
b. queuing
c. spooling
d. scheduling
c. spooling
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