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Re: Assembler Programming - Costs versus Benefits

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From: Peter da Silva
Date: Sat, 01 Dec 1990 01:29
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In article <1990Nov30.144853.2562@diku.dk>, bombadil@diku.dk (Kristian Nielsen) writes:
> It wopuld be interresting (and usefull!) to hear if someone could comment on
> the above, add what I have forgotten or don't know, and correct me where
> (not if) I'm wrong.

I think you've done an admirable job of picking out the problems. About the
only one I can think of is that memory above 16M isn't available to Zorro-II
DMA, so you better make sure your disk buffers are allocated below that if you
do direct disk I/O on a 2000 with a 68020 and over 16M RAM.
-- 
Peter da Silva.   `-_-'
<peter@sugar.hackercorp.com>.
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From: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Assembler Programming - Costs versus Benefits
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Date: 1 Dec 90 01:29:45 GMT
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