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Pretty much. Mainframes have been very I/O oriented from the start. Channel I/O (more or less DMA) with dedicated channel programs and processors can be very hi
by PeCaN 10y ago
Pretty much. Mainframes have been very I/O oriented from the start. Channel I/O (more or less DMA) with dedicated channel programs and processors can be very high-throughput.
- agumonkey 10y agoAlso I suppose it frees the logic processors from all IO (caching too?) related processing and allow for fancier strategies downstream .. (all guess fest)