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Input and output ports are the pathways by which the CPU communicates
with the world outside the computer.
The pathway may be either
- 1-bit wide (bit-serial),
- 8-bit wide (byte-serial), or
- 16- to 32-bit wide (word-serial).
Doug Gingrich
Tue Jul 13 16:55:15 EDT 1999