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From: calvin@portia.stanford.edu (Peter Chang)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Direct Memory Access
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Date: 19 Mar 91 22:02:29 GMT
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>> Are there any plans to put DMA on a Mac.

>Well, the IIfx has loads of DMA goodies. Software support of them isn't here,
>but I am sure that will be fixed quite quickly as soon as they get sys 7 out
>the door.

	I'm not sure, but I read somewhere that even sys 7 does not
support all of the neat DMA stuff that the fx has buil on, in
fact I do not think that any of it is supported.

	Does anybody know if this is indeed true? Not that it
really matters since my mac does not have any DMA )-;


Peter