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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!darwin.sura.net!jvnc.net!nuscc!ntuix!eoahmad From: eoahmad@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg (Othman Ahmad) Subject: Re: ISA/DMA in 386BSD Message-ID: <1992Oct25.044504.29339@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg> Organization: Nanyang Technological University - Singapore X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6] References: <BILL.92Oct24005633@kepler.ucsd.edu> Date: Sun, 25 Oct 1992 04:45:04 GMT Lines: 12 There used to be a long discussion on this topic in comp.os.minix because the minix driver does not use DMA? Personally I do not like DMA. With 486/25 , memory copy is faster than DMA, and it does not have the memory limitation problem. -- Othman bin Ahmad, School of EEE, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 2263. Internet Email: eoahmad@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg Bitnet Email: eoahmad@ntuvax.bitnet