Re: High-End Pentium MB Recs wanted!

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From: Jim
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 1995 00:00

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In article <3mqavb$3st@news.duke.edu> "Brent K. Presley" <bkp@acpub.duke.edu> writes:
>From: "Brent K. Presley" <bkp@acpub.duke.edu>
>Subject: Re: High-End Pentium MB Recs wanted!
>Date: 16 Apr 1995 05:46:19 GMT

>BTW, the Triton chipset supports the new Mode 4 >528MB FAST   
>ATA-2/EIDE Hard Drives with really nice Bus Mastering system   
>that reduces the load on the CPU. 

So exactly what does this mean?  Does this mean that the EIDE HD controller
is a on-board bus mastering system or soemthing?  Please clarify, system
architecture is not one of my strongest points.

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From: vecna@umich.edu (Jim)
Subject: Re: High-End Pentium MB Recs wanted!
Date: 1995/04/18
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