Answer these questions about the various forms of VO b. What is the byte count, as used in DMA IVO and what happens when this count reaches 0? c. What can channel I/O do that DMA I/O cannot?

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Answer these questions about the various forms of VO
b. What is the byte count, as used in DMA IVO and what happens when this count reaches 0?
c. What can channel I/O do that DMA I/O cannot?
Transcribed Image Text:Answer these questions about the various forms of VO b. What is the byte count, as used in DMA IVO and what happens when this count reaches 0? c. What can channel I/O do that DMA I/O cannot?
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Answer for the various type of I/O is dicussed here.

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Reasons of interrupt-driven I/O better than programmed I/O:

  • In the programmed I/O, CPU spends most of its time in a tight loop waiting for the device until I/O is completed.
  • But in the interrupt-driven I/O, the processor does not wait for until the I/O operation is complete. Rather the processor do the other operation.
  • Therefore, the interrupt-driven I/O is better than programmed I/O.
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