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Sound similar to Channel I/O. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Channel_I/O https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Channel_I/O.
by undersuit 11y ago
Sound similar to Channel I/O.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Channel_I/O https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Channel_I/O.
- Animats 11y agoMuch more than that. Channel I/O on IBM mainframes is mostly about watching the data go by as the disk rotates until some key matches. With a random-access storage device, that's unnecessary. The SPU concept is more about looking up things in index trees, and updating those trees safely.