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From: adam@gec-mi-at.co.uk (Adam Quantrill)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Using a DMA chip in strange ways
Message-ID: <518@gec-mi-at.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 13-Mar-87 11:36:32 EST
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Posted: Fri Mar 13 11:36:32 1987
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In article <4343@columbia.UUCP>, dupuy@amsterdam.columbia.edu (Alexander Dupuy) writes:
>> [] would
>> there be any advantage in having a DMA chip which would simply be used for
>> memory to memory copies (from user to kernel space, or from one user space to
>> another)?

Yup. You don't wear out the cpu so much.

-- 
       -Adam.

/* If at first it don't compile, kludge, kludge again.*/