Quiz submission record for quiz6-2-2 at Thu Jul 29 09:29:28 2004:

Your Answer for Question 1:
EPC register holds address of the offending instruction and Cause register holds a fiedld that indicates the reason for the exception. 

Your Answer for Question 2:
the difficulty of always associating the correct exception with the correct instruction pipelined computers has led some computer desigeners to relax this requirement in noncritcal cases.

Your Answer for Question 3:
The process of periodically checking status bits to see if it is time for the next I/O operation.

Your Answer for Question 4:
memory-mapped io means that each register appears as a special memory location. I don't really understand the question...


Your unique submission ID is quiz6-2-2-cs61c-ad-1091118568-1847.