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From: andy@batcomputer.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Using a DMA chip in strange ways
Message-ID: <214@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>
Date: Thu, 19-Feb-87 11:28:33 EST
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Posted: Thu Feb 19 11:28:33 1987
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Every board in our FPS T-20 (18 Transputers, 16 vector coprocessors) has
a DMA chip that can be used for memory-to-memory copies.

They also use video RAMs (with a special address mode to get at more than
32 bits / fetch) to pump things into and out of the vector processor.

Nifty.
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Andy Pfiffer					andy@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu
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