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Date:      Tue, 2 Jan 1996 18:11:48 -0500 (EST)
From:      Peter Dufault <dufault@hda.com>
To:        rls@kilroy.id.net (Robert Shady)
Cc:        rls@kilroy.id.net, gestur@islandia.is, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG, admin@islandia.is
Subject:   Re: Majordomo results
Message-ID:  <199601022311.SAA01361@hda.com>
In-Reply-To: <199601021745.MAA17691@server.id.net> from "Robert Shady" at Jan 2, 96 12:45:20 pm

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> > It might emulate a 1542, but that would limit you to 16MB without
> > bounce buffers or a custom driver since the 1542 programming
> > interface is 3 byte addresses.
> 
> This is true, but what's wrong with bounce buffers?  I don't remember
> seeing that in your original question... ;)

Nothing wrong with bounce buffers (especially as a bootstrapping aid
since the board will work out of the box), but it seemed like a useful
thing to point out that he won't get direct transfers above 16MB.
I wouldn't want him to be surprised about those wasted address lines...

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Peter Dufault               Real Time Machine Control and Simulation
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