10/15: Lecture Topics

10/15/99


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10/15: Lecture Topics

Why I/O?

Types of I/O

Three Characteristic Devices

Detecting Mouse Motion

Mouse Interfaces

Anatomy of a Magnetic Disk

Accessing Data from a Disk

Disk Interface

Networks

Networking Interfaces

Communicating with Devices

System Bus

Commands to I/O Devices

Device to Processor Comm.

Device to Memory Comm.

Performance Issues in I/O

The I/O Bottleneck

Author: Gretta E. Bartels