Section 16.4
Review Questions
Coordination among devices
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What is a bus initiator?
answer...
a device that current has control of the bus; it can initiate, monitor and
halt the current bus operation
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Is being a bus initiator a fixed property of a computer component?
answer...
No; one particular component may be a initiator some of the time, and a
responder at other times.
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What is an example of a component that is never a initiator, always a responder?
answer...
main memory
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Which type of memory operation results in two bus operations, with data
flowing in two different directions? Circle one:
read write
answer...
read