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From: eoahmad@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg (Othman Ahmad)
Subject: Re: ISA/DMA in 386BSD
Message-ID: <1992Oct25.044504.29339@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg>
Organization: Nanyang Technological University - Singapore
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References: <BILL.92Oct24005633@kepler.ucsd.edu>
Date: Sun, 25 Oct 1992 04:45:04 GMT
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There used to be a long discussion on this topic in comp.os.minix because the
minix driver does not use DMA?
	Personally I do not like DMA. With 486/25 , memory copy is faster than
DMA, and it does not have the memory limitation problem.


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Othman bin Ahmad, School of EEE,
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 2263.
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