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Explain How Timing Differences Are Smoothed Out Among Processors, Memories And I/o Devices.

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  • The devices connected to a bus vary widely in their speed of operation. 
  • Electro mechanical devices such as key board and printers are RELATIVELY slow.
  • Others like magnetic or optical DISKS, are considerably faster.
  • Memory and processor units operate at electronic speeds.
    • A common approach to smooth out the timing differences is to include buffer registers with the devices to hold the information during transfers.
    • They prevent a high speed processor from being locked to a slow I/O device during a sequence of data transfers. This allows the processor to SWITCH rapidly from one device to another, interweaving its process activity with data transfers involving SEVERAL I/O devices.
    • Thus, buffer registers smooth out timing differences among processors, memories and I/O devices. 



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