I/O Channel Features

• Direct point to point or multipoint high speed communications link over very short distances.

• Hardware based link.

• Data is transferred between a buffer at source device and a buffer at destination device.

• No special formatting is used, data is transferred in raw form.

• Transfer control and error detection is implemented in hardware.

• I/O channel links processors with peripheral devices.

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