Multiple Choice
A current trend in I/O device technology and I/O subsystem is
A) there is an increasingly broad variety of I/O devices.
B) new devices are similar to the previous I/O devices that makes it easier to incorporate them in operating systems.
C) to encapsulate the oddities of different I/O devices, the device drivers present device-specific interface for each device to the I/O subsystem.
D) All of the above.
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