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From: phil@amdcad.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: IBM PC/AT DMA loses (was Re: PC LAN Comparison)
Message-ID: <19338@amdcad.AMD.COM>
Date: Wed, 25-Nov-87 21:16:40 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov 25 21:16:40 1987
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In article <162@tic.UUCP> ruiu@tic.UUCP (Dragos Ruiu) writes:
>An aquaintance who is designing a major PC based hardware project has chosen
>to use double-ported memory. Truett Smith has already suggested this as the 
>solution.
>
>So, in light of the dropping cost of such devices, they are the preferred way
>to go. Right ?

Many dual ported systems are not made of dual ported memory devices.
Certainly none of mine are. It's hard to get 2 megabytes of dual
ported memory using dinky 2 kilobyte devices. 

-- 
I speak for myself, not the company.

Phil Ngai, {ucbvax,decwrl,allegra}!amdcad!phil or amdcad!phil@decwrl.dec.com