What does "tying up" mean?
"his method is called busy waiting and has the disadvantage of tying up the CPU polling the device until it is finished."
t means that no other software can use the CPU while this 'busy waiting' process is happening. Clive
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t means that no other software can use the CPU while this 'busy waiting' process is happening.
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