Chapter 12. Input and Output (I/O)
A typical program has three basic tasks: input, computation, and output. This book has so far concentrated on the computational aspects of the computer system, but now it is time to discuss input and output.
This chapter will focus on the primitive input and output activities of the CPU, rather than on the abstract file or character input/output (I/O) that high-level applications usually employ. It will discuss how the CPU transfers bytes of data to and from the outside world, paying special attention to the performance issues behind I/O operations. As all high-level I/O activities are eventually routed through ...
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