PC Hardware Interfaces: A Developer’s Reference – I/O Expansion Buses and Cards

Chapter 6: I/O Expansion Buses and Cards Overview Expansion buses are a system-level means of connection that allow adapters and controllers to use the computer’s system resources—memory and I/O space, interrupts, DMA channels, and so on—directly. Devices connected to expansion buses can also control these buses themselves, obtaining access to the rest of the computer’s […]
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