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From: ckp@grebyn.com (Checkpoint Technologies)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Commodore at FCC
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Date: 28 Sep 90 15:35:59 GMT
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In article <9009270725.AA02487@mcs-server.gac.edu> scott@NIC.GAC.EDU writes:
>  Only thing that seems to be lost are 2 or 3 DMA channels, and
>I suspect those are gone with the bus . . .

Actually, I hear two DMA channels were intended for high speed
memory-to-memory data movement.  It's possible NeXT decided that the
new 68040 instruction MOVE16 works better anyway.
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