March 2003
Intermediate to advanced
912 pages
27h 17m
English
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Chapter 3. The hardware interface, I/O and communications
3.1 Overview
3.2 Device interfacing
3.3 Exceptions
3.4 Multiprocessors
3.5 User-level input and output
3.6 Communications management
3.7 Communications networks, interfaces and drivers
3.8 Communications software
3.9 Communications handling within and above an operating system
3.10 Summary