March 2018
Beginner
744 pages
26h 5m
English
State Amdahl’s Law in words.
What is speedup?
What is a protocol, and why is it important in I/O bus technology?
Name three types of durable storage.
Explain how programmed I/O is different from interrupt-driven I/O.
What is polling?
How are address vectors used in interrupt-driven I/O?
How does direct memory access (DMA) work?
What is a bus master?
Why does DMA require cycle stealing?
What does it mean when someone refers to I/O as bursty?
How is channel I/O different from interrupt-driven I/O?
How is channel I/O similar to DMA?
What is multiplexing?
What distinguishes an asynchronous bus from a synchronous bus?
What is settle time, and what can be done about it?
Why are magnetic disks called direct ...