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From: mveh2@cbnews.ATT.COM (edward.holdgate.iv)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Any Good DMA Programming Reference Book(s)?
Message-ID: <11079@cbnews.ATT.COM>
Date: 3 Nov 89 13:50:50 GMT
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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Hello Netters.

I have a DMA requirement coming up and I'd like to learn about DMA
programming for high speed analog input scanning.  I know it's rather
hardware dependent and I do have the hardware reference manuals which
explain the registers for DMA.  What I want first is a programmers   
point of view introduction to DMA.  A whole chapter in a book devoted 
to DMA programming for PC's (286/386) would be most useful.

I know that the analog input card vendors supply C and ASM interface
libraries for their products; the point is to learn more about DMA
capabilities and limitations __before__ I commit to one vendors product.

Maybe DMA just isn't as complicated as I'm trying to make it....

					Thanks.
						Ed Holdgate
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