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Article #13021Re: Using a DMA chip in strange ways
From: andy
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1987 16:28
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1987 16:28
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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. -- Andy Pfiffer andy@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu Cornell Theory Center / Cornell U. cornell!batcomputer!andy Home of the first usable T-Series (607) 255-8686 "...that's the way a Transputer works, right?" Systems Group
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