Newsgroups: comp.sys.transputer
From: Geraint.Jones@wolfson.oxford.ac.uk (Geraint Jones)
Subject: Re: One dumb question about DMA
Organization: The Bake Two Biscuits Campaign
Date: Sun, 10 Jul 1994 19:00:59 GMT
Message-ID: <14304588851860219940710185206@comlab.oxford.ac.uk>

roger@pact.srf.ac.uk (Roger Shepherd):
(  Communication on-chip, between two processes of different priorities
 ) happens to take place at the priority of the second process which 
(  executes an input or output instruction.

Ooooh.  That's magic.  I love it.  Of course it does: it could
hardly be worth anyone's while to go to the trouble of making
it do anything else.  That chip is a real work of art.         g

