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Name: \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_

Directions: {\bf Work only on this sheet} (on both sides, if needed); do not
turn in any supplementary sheets of paper. There is actually plenty of room
for your answers, as long as you organize yourself BEFORE starting writing.

{\bf 1.} (15) A scheme under which an I/O device communicates with memory
without the intervention of the CPU is called 
\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_.

{\bf 2.} (15) Consider the example in Section 6.11.  Fill in the blanks:
By using a macro instead of a subroutine, we made the program
\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ by the amount of 
\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ bytes, and we
made its run time 
\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_.  (The first
blank must be filled in by {\it larger} or {\it smaller}, the second by
a number, and the third by {\it faster} or {\it slower}.)

{\bf 3}. Answer either HW (``hardware'') or SW (``software'')
concerning what entity performs each of the following tasks:

\begin{itemize}

\item [(a)] (10) Saving c(EBX) within a device driver.

\item [(b)] (10) Setting c(IDT).

\item [(c)] (10) Setting c(c(IDT)+8).

\item [(d)] (15) Saving the ``bread crumbs'' when an interrupt is
detected.

\item [(e)] (10) Acknowledging an interrupt.

\item [(f)] (15) Evicting a cache block.

\end{itemize}

{\bf Solutions:}

{\bf 1.} DMA

{\bf 2.} larger; 6; faster

{\bf 3.} SW; SW; SW; HW; HW; HW

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