On Wed, 21 Jul 1999, David A. Gatwood wrote:

> Oh, I understand.  You mean if the IOP could be controlled through DMA.  I
> was suggesting that, by that description, the IOP acts like a DMA engine,
> in that it reads from a section of memory and dumps it out in time through
> the port.  The buffer that it reads from being fixed reminds me of the
> AMIC DMA used in the x100 PowerMacs.  Same sort of issues, I assume.

Is the AMIC SCSI or ethernet or none of the above?

Take care,

Bill