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Isolated or I/O -mapped I/O:

In this scheme, the full range of addresses may be available for both.

The address refers to a memory location or an I/O device is specified with the help of a command line.

In general command line is used to identify a memory location or an I/O device.

if =1, it indicates that the address present in address bus is the address of an I/O device.

if =0, it indicates that the address present in address bus is the address of a memory location.

Since full range of address is available for both memory and I/O devices, so, with 16 address lines, the system may now support both 2 16 memory locations and 2 16 I/O addresses.

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