1051752_B6500_Basic_IO_Handling_Oct_69.pdf | | Reprinted from:
Proceedings of
2nd ACM Symposium on
Operating Systems Principles
a.iin i Patel
Princeton, New Jersey
October, 1969
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BASIC I/O HANDLING ON BURROUGHS B6500
Rajani M. Patel
Burroughs CorporationPasadena,
California
Summary: The approach to processing basic Input/Output in B6500 hardware design
and software implementation is discussed in this paper. Hardware I/O structure
necessary to the understanding of the approach is described first. The represen-
tation of the I/O queue and the algorithms used in handling I/O requests are
described in detail to emp |