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}}</ref> The operating system maintains this table to keep track of which processes are waiting for which devices. One field in the table is the [[memory address]] of the process control block.
* Place all the characters to be sent to the device into a [[random-access memory|memory buffer]].<ref name="sco-ch5-p308_b"/>
* Set the memory address of the memory buffer to a predetermined [[device register]].<ref name="sco-ch5-p295">{{cite book
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