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  • From: "David Moberg" <davidjmoberg AT lycos.com>
  • To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [BL] MPlayer
  • Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 14:40:07 -0500

----- Original Message -----
From: "Long Nguyen" <lhn16425 AT yahoo.com>

> --- David Moberg <davidjmoberg AT lycos.com> wrote:
> > > What is a DMA and what does it do? (I used to work for the
> > Defense > Mapping Agency).
> >
> > DMA = Dynamic Memory Allocation?? It is a way of transferring data
> > which does not overload the CPU as much as an ordinary transfer. Modern
> > hard
> drives
> > use DMA to improve transfer speed.
>
> I think DMA stands for Direct Memory Access, which is exactly what you said,
> I/O with little CPU intervention. This is much faster than "regular" I/O.

I should have looked this up before responding.

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