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From: ignatios@cauchy.cs.uni-bonn.de (Ignatios Souvatzis)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: Curious about *BSD History
Date: 27 Jun 1996 18:08:00 GMT
Organization: Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universit"at Bonn, Institut
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In article <31D0A2C9.72741EA8@lambert.org>, Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> writes:

> Doesn't it really want a "machine independent target range
> restricted DMA soloution"?  The Amiga, for instance, does
> not have ISA, 

It has, we just don't support it yet. 

>		but has the DMA targetting problem for "fast RAM".

For some devices, alas.

Regards,	
	Ignatios Souvatzis