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Why can't they just give the IO bus a slower clock and devote the resources to the memory bus? Or, memory-map everything and make the IO area yet another reserv
by remexre 6y ago
Why can't they just give the IO bus a slower clock and devote the resources to the memory bus? Or, memory-map everything and make the IO area yet another reserved area the BIOS tells the OS about?
- baybal2 6y agoI believe, if anybody knew answer to many questions along the lines of yours, the guy would be rich, and Intel would not be in the ditch. To be clear, the I/O bus with own address space is no longer in use, but design considerations resulting from keeping it around for so long are there.