Which of the following I/O transfer methods involves the CPU polling t

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Module 2: x86 Architecture, CPU Control, I/O, Memory System Design

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Which of the following I/O transfer methods involves the CPU polling the device until data is read?
i) DMA
ii) Interrupt-driven I/O
iii) Program-controlled I/O
iv) Asynchronous I/O

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