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- From: chen-m@acsu.buffalo.edu (Mingteh Michael Chen)
- Newsgroups: comp.arch
- Subject: burst mode
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- Date: 30 Jul 92 19:32:07 GMT
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- Dear Netters:
- I am a novice in the group, so please bear with me if I am wrong. 8-)
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- My question is :
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- What is the burst mode of the Micro channel architecture?
- and what makes it to be superior than other approaches? (maybe DMA?)
- I have some vague idea that it transfers a whole memory "block"
- instead of a memory word individually. But as long as the bus bandwidth is
- fixed, each memory "word" still needs to be transferred sequentially...
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- Thank you very much for any comments or directions!
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- Regards,
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- Mingteh Chen
- State Univ. of New York at Buffalo,
- Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering
- INTERNET: chen-m@acsu.buffalo.edu
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