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["David Moberg" <davidjmoberg AT lycos.com>]

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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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