RE: Main CPU- I/O CPU interaction

From: David Schwartz
Date: Mon Jan 03 2005 - 13:55:53 EST



> from doing the low level I/O operations. However, if i am editing and
> updating a big size file and i want to save
> it afterwards, i notice my PC getting blocked while saving the
> file which
> theoritically should NOT happen as it is up to the I/O device
> processor and

What does "PC getting blocked" mean?

DS


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