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A typical printed page of text contains 50 lines of 80 characters each. Imagine that a cer...

A typical printed page of text contains 50 lines of 80 characters each. Imagine that a certain printer can print 6 pages per minute and that the lime to write a character to the printer’s output register is so short it can be ignored. Does it make sense to run this printer using interrupt-driven I/O if each character printed requires an interrupt that takes 50 µsec all-in to service?

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