In the x86 architecture, an input/output base address is a base address of an I/O port. In other words, this is the first address of a range of consecutive I/O port addresses that device uses.
Read more about Input/output Base Address: Common I/O Base Address Device Assignments in IBM PC Compatible Computers
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“Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face. As soon as one is aware of being “somebody,” to be watched and listened to with extra interest, input ceases, and the performer goes blind and deaf in his overanimation. One can either see or be seen.”
—John Updike (b. 1932)
“Lizzie Borden took an axe
And gave her mother forty whacks;
When she saw what she had done,
She gave her father forty-one.”
—Anonymous. Late 19th century ballad.
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“Your top has sunk too low,
Your base has spread too wide,
For you to roll one stone
Down if you tried.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
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—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)