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Re: AppleWorks queries

On 3 Oct 1997 03:53:09 GMT, joreilly@amanda.dorsai.org (James OReilly)
wrote:

>What's DMA?

Direct Memory Access--it can speed up certain things (usually
harddrive-to-memory speed) by bypassing part of the computer, and
shoving data right into its memory.  However, problems can happen if
you have both a DMA-using device, AND over 4 MB RAM.
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