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1997-11-14 at approximately 04:47 PM -0800, Bill Studenmund wrote:
>> The IIfx was vastly underutilized in the MacOS - only AU/X took advantage
>> of its IOPs and DMA.  There was a version of AppleShare which was designed
>> to run under AU/X in the IIfx and take advantage of the hardware.  (Not
>> that a 40Mhz 030 was bad in those days, but in MacOS you weren't getting
>> much beyond that 40Mhz 030, nonstandard RAM, nonstandard internal SCSI
>> that required a special terminator, and a lot of slots :)
>
>Very true that MacOS never utilized the IIfx to its potential. But AFAIK
>it did NOT have DMA.

I am pretty sure that the IIfx has SCSI DMA, I seem to recall one of the
magazines mentioning that when SCSI Manager 4.3 came out (and mentioning
its lack of support for the IIfx's SCSI DMA it as yet another broken Apple
promise ;)

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Joel Klecker        <mailto:jk@espy.org>        <http://www.espy.org/>
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           Apple Flavored Unix (Unix for Macs and clones)
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