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From: rca@cs.brown.edu (Ronald C.F. Antony)
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Subject: Re: DMA Channels:  Where'd they go?
Keywords: dma
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Date: 24 Sep 90 21:43:32 GMT
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In article <5593@mace.cc.purdue.edu> asd@mace.cc.purdue.edu (Kareth) writes:
>
>Okay, maybe I misunderstand something, or remember something wrong, so
>just correct me if I'm wrong.
>
>But didn't there used to be 12 DMA channels on the NeXT Cube???
>Now there are only 9!  Only 8 on the slab.  What happened to those 3 DMA
>channels?

Good question. I guess the difference between the slab and the cube
lies in the missing OD support for the slab. But what happened to the
3 others I can't tell.

Ronald
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