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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.eng.convex.com!newshost.convex.com!newsgate.duke.edu!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!hsno.wco.com!news.wco.com!not-for-mail From: jmonroy@wco.com (Jesse Monroy) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Who (or what) is Jesus Monroy? Date: 4 Jul 1996 20:53:58 GMT Organization: West Coast Online, Inc. Lines: 42 Message-ID: <4rhb16$5nd@news.wco.com> References: <DttF16.1Bn@ritz.mordor.com> <DtuFHy.6CG@nemesis.lonestar.org> <4rddc3$5ip@news.wco.com> <31DB58FE.582527CC@lambert.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: shell.wco.com X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 950824BETA PL0] Terry Lambert (terry@lambert.org) wrote: : Jesse Monroy wrote: : ] Frank Durda IV (uhclem@nemesis.lonestar.org) wrote: : ] : Chris Mauritz (ritz@ritz.mordor.com) wrote: : ] : : Jesus Monroy is really a pseudonym for Bill Jolitz. Shhh... : ] : : now that I've told you I'll have to kill you. :-) : ] : : ] : I wondered why my explanations about how DMA *really* works : ] : to Jesus ended up in Bills book and columns... :-) : ] : ] The amazing thing is that DMA is just about useless. : : An amazing statement, tantamount to claiming tht processor : pipelining is useless. : Dammit Terry, I had to open my dictionary tantamount -- adj. - equivalent Well, now that you mention it.... : Your claim is that it is useless process data already in L1, : L2, and non-collisively accessed memory (assuming a good : chipset, or more specifically, a good DMAC), while the I/O : bus is active for a DMA transfer. : Well from a practical point, DMA, while a good idea, seems to be one of these points that CISC processor people like to tout. I on the other hand don't see this working correctly under parallel processors... as you know. So now we look at the possbility of two or more buses.. and should they be parallel or some hybrid of arbitration. : This is obviously false... you are trolling. The real Jesus : Monroy Jr. did not troll. : : Foo! You are nothing but a charleton! : So, you can e-mail me... to see if it really is me..