Newsgroups: comp.sys.transputer
From: roger@pact.srf.ac.uk (Roger Shepherd)
Subject: Re: One dumb question about DMA
Organization: University of Bristol, England
Date: Wed, 13 Jul 1994 16:50:46 GMT
Message-ID: <Csw1GM.Iyo@info.bris.ac.uk>

Geraint Jones (Geraint.Jones@wolfson.oxford.ac.uk) wrote:
: 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

Of course it's a real work of art!

But, seriously,  there is no point in making it do anything else - if
there were it would have done so.

--
Roger Shepherd

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