The system had a single Channel Controller for performing autonomous I / O, and used the same peripheral I / O controllers as the GEC 4000 series minicomputer.
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Channel controller Richard Woolfe hinted at the Edinburgh International Television Festival that the show had reached a conclusion and would be replaced by other female-skewing shows in the lineup.
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With no dedicated channel controller until then, in May 2011 it was announced by RT?that Eddie Doyle had been given the position of commissioning editor at RT?Two.
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2005 saw Nick Ware, former Creative Director for BBC Learning, take on the role of channel controller and Community Channel became available on NTL for 24 hours a day.
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Inmos saw them being used for practically everything, from operating as the main CPU for a computer to acting as a channel controller for disk drives in the same machine.
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The 801 architecture was used in a variety of IBM devices including channel controllers for their S / 370 mainframes, various networking devices, and eventually the IBM 9370 mainframe core itself.
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However, with the rapid speed increases in computers today, combined with operating systems that don't'block'when waiting for data, channel controllers have become correspondingly less effective and are not commonly found on small machines.
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Generally, the channel controllers would do their best to run all of the bus operations internally, moving data when the CPU was known to be busy elsewhere if possible, and only using interrupts when necessary.
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In 1993, at the age of thirty-five, he became the second youngest Channel Controller in the BBC's history when he was promoted to succeed Yentob, who had been promoted to Controller of BBC One, as Controller of BBC Two.
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The POWER1's I / O interfaces are implemented by the I / O unit, which contains an I / O channel controller ( IOCC ) and two fibre optic link, which are intended to connect RS / 6000 systems together.
