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- From: mike@starburst.umd.edu (Michael F. Santangelo)
- Newsgroups: comp.arch
- Subject: Re: question about DMA devices
- Date: 27 Dec 1992 21:38:54 GMT
- Organization: University of Maryland, Chesapeake Biological Laboratory
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- don@zl2tnm.gen.nz (Don Stokes) writes:
-
- >jan@pallas.neuroinformatik.ruhr-uni-bochum.de (Jan Vorbrueggen) writes:
- >> A number of smaller Vaxen (only the uVaxI? or also the 725/730?) didn't have
- >> these and in general had to do I/O a page at a time...probably still slightly
- >> faster than a PC/XT :).
-
- >The MicroVAX I addressed memory on the Qbus, in the same way it addressed
- >peripherals. DMA is no different on these systems, except that there is no
- >need for mapping registers because the memory is in the same address space
- >as the peripheral and can be addressed directly. I'm not sure about the
- >11/730, but there's nothing special about the I/O adapters -- bog standard
- >Unibus devices that presumably have some sort of map into memory.
-
- The 11/730 had mapping registers. It's memory (MS730-CA) was same
- as VAX 11/750's memory boards (MS730CA = MS750-CA 1MB bds). The 730
- had a special I/O accelerator bus for its "IDC" (Integrated Disk
- Controller) on the -ZA models (the RB730). Basically the IDC RB730
- board got signals from the UNIBUS controller integral to the KA730
- processor board-set but xfered data on the special accelerator bus
- (there was some special microcode for those 8 4-bit AMD2901 bit slice
- processors that made up the KA730 that handled these xfers). The
- KA730 did have a normal and FULL UNIBUS interface. The backplane
- of the -ZA (IDC based) model had slots (1 full function HEX, and
- 5 QUAD slots shared with MS730/750 boards). You could even extend
- the UNIBUS into an external BA11 chassis. But anyway, more approprate
- to this thread, the KA730's had the standard VAX UNIBUS interface with
- mapping registers, et al.
-
- The latter -CA 730's did away with the IDC/RB730 and just had normal UNIBUS
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