Along with the basic I / O channel controllers, and GE sold a variety of add-ons including disks, printers and other devices.
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In February 2014 she stood down from the post of channel controller taking up a new post responsible for special projects and seasons.
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Channel controllers have also been made as small as single-chip designs with multiple channels on them, used in the NeXT computers for instance.
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MacDonald became the Controller of BBC 2 in 1983, the first ever BBC channel controller to come from a background in the drama department.
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High-end systems introduced the idea of channel controllers, which were essentially small computers dedicated to handling the input and output of a given bus.
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Channel controllers are making a comeback in the form of bus mastering peripheral devices, such as PCI direct memory access ( DMA ) devices.
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The rationale for these devices is the same as for the original channel controllers, namely off-loading transfer, interrupts, and context switching from the main CPU.
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Even though each controller monitors its own channel, one of the channel controllers is assigned to be a master and all the other controllers report to it.
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Viewers will pick a program just as they pick a magazine on a bookstall, rather than being fed what a channel controller somewhere thinks should come next.
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The first use of channel I / O was with the IBM 709 vacuum tube mainframe, whose Model 766 Data Synchronizer was the first channel controller, in 1957.
