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A typical printed page of text contains $50$ lines of $80$ characters each. Imagine that a certain printer can print $6$ pages per minute and that the time to write a character to the printer’s output register is so short it can be ignored. Does it make sense to run this printer using interrupt-driven I/O if each character printed requires an interrupt that takes $50\: \mu sec$ all-in to service?

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