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At 03:14 PM 8/5/97 +0200, Peter Korsten wrote:
>Maybe I'm naive here, but isn't it kinda impossible to write 64
>bits at one time over a 32 bits bus? 64 bits PCI isn't that wide-
>spread yet and while you may be able to write 64 bits at a time,
>they'll have to move in two chunks of 32 bits.

You're certainly right, but that's not what I said.  It's possible 
for the two 32-bit chunks to be combined back into a 64-bit chunk 
before the 64-bit DRAM sees it.  But I also said it happened often, 
which probably isn't true at this time.