DMA requests in CPU mamagement

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From: lcs08946
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 1992 22:47

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A typical CPU allows most interrupts to be enabled and disabled under
software control. In contrast, no CPU provides facilities to disable DMA
request signals. I would like to know why.
Thank you.

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