A technique used to reduce the speed mismatch between slow speed I/O devices and fast CPU is called

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• A register in CPU used to store the address of the next instruction to be executed is known as
• Storing programs on disk and then transferring these programs into main storage as and when they are needed. The technique is used to process large programs or several programs with limited memory is called
• Circuits that provide a communication path between two or more devices of a digital computer system is
• A CPU designed specifically to handle the communications processing task with main purpose is to off-load communications processing task from the host computer so that the host computer can be dedicated for applications and data processing jobs.
• A memory in CPU that holds program instructions, input data, intermediate results and the output information produced during processing is
• In the IBM PC’s, the CPU, the device drives, memory, expansion slots and active components are mounted on a single board referred as
• CPU performs read/write operations at any point in time in
• Technique of using disk space to make programs believe that the system contains more random access memory (RAM) than is actually available is called
• Technique of placing software/programs in a ROM semiconductor chip is called
• A storage devices where the access time is effectively independent of the location of the data is referred as