Section 18.3
Review Questions
Timing Considerations
  1. Which is faster, CPU or peripheral?
  1. Which bit could be done away with? Circle one. 
                     DA                   DR
               (data accepted)        (data ready)
  1. What is blocking in tape drives?
  1. How fast were old tape drives?
  1. If a 1 MIPS computer had a tape drive running at this speed, how much faster would the CPU be than the tape drive?
  1. Why do hardware designers almost never try to match the I/O processor's speed with the CPU?