Labels:book | bulletin board | reckoner | sky OCR: job For the calling software this means it simply can place request to transfer data at any time and then ob on processing something else or relinquish the processor to another task waiting eagerly for CPU time. SCSI Manager will do the job when appropriate without the calling software being stuck until the desired SCSI device is ready These features together make up what's referred to as "asynchronous" SCSI operations: An application places a read or write request to the os and is free todo anything useful in the meantime until the requested 1/0 operation ready With current incarnations of other parts of Macos (e.g the File Manager and current applications that usually do not know to take advantage of asynchronous I/0 there will be only little performance gains visible tc end users but th ...
