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Newer page: version 2 Last edited on Tuesday, November 2, 2004 4:48:58 am by AristotlePagaltzis
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-An [Acronym] for __I__nput/__O__utput.  
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-This very broad term generally refers to a computer's act of communication with the outside world (which the machine's mass storage devices are also seen as part of), such as by reading characters from the keyboard or a file, writing a buffer to disk, displaying something on the screen, receiving or sending something via a [NIC], etc pp.  
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-It is easier to define this term by exclusion: any movement of data is [IO] unless both source and destination lie in the same address space
+Describe [IO] here