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From: GORRIEDE@UREGINA1.BITNET (Dennis Robert Gorrie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Hard disks, DMA vs Non-DMA
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Date: 17 Nov 89 18:51:45 GMT
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     There are many hardware details that make the explanation of DMA vs
non-DMA very diffucult.  All of the advertising hype seems to just confuse
the matter even more.

      What I am looking for is a very detailed view of the whole DMA process
vs a detailed view of the non-DMA process.  I wish somebody had system
flow charts of this kind of stuff.  Perhaps, to get a better understanding,
I will try and draw one myself.

(I can hear all the 'REAL' programmers out there saying 'What?  we don't
need no stink'n flow charts!')    :-)