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Essentials of Computer Organization and Architecture, 5th Edition
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Essentials of Computer Organization and Architecture, 5th Edition

by Linda Null, Julia Lobur
March 2018
Beginner content levelBeginner
744 pages
26h 5m
English
Jones & Bartlett Learning
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REVIEW OF ESSENTIAL TERMS AND CONCEPTS

  1. State Amdahl’s Law in words.

  2. What is speedup?

  3. What is a protocol, and why is it important in I/O bus technology?

  4. Name three types of durable storage.

  5. Explain how programmed I/O is different from interrupt-driven I/O.

  6. What is polling?

  7. How are address vectors used in interrupt-driven I/O?

  8. How does direct memory access (DMA) work?

  9. What is a bus master?

  10. Why does DMA require cycle stealing?

  11. What does it mean when someone refers to I/O as bursty?

  12. How is channel I/O different from interrupt-driven I/O?

  13. How is channel I/O similar to DMA?

  14. What is multiplexing?

  15. What distinguishes an asynchronous bus from a synchronous bus?

  16. What is settle time, and what can be done about it?

  17. Why are magnetic disks called direct ...

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ISBN: 9781284123043