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The Need for <strong>Operating</strong> <strong>Systems</strong><br />

Machine (assembly) Language<br />

– between 50 and 300 instructions<br />

– I/O is effected by moving values to ‘device<br />

registers’<br />

» e.g. read a disk by loading address, byte count,<br />

read/write flag, memory address in to the disk<br />

registers<br />

» but many many parameters are needed<br />

» timing is an important issue<br />

Copyright © 2007 <strong>David</strong> <strong>Vernon</strong> (www.vernon.eu)

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