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- Subject: Re: GEMDOS re-entrancy
- Date: Tue, 31 May 94 22:21:10 +0200
- From: Erling Henanger <erlingh@idt.unit.no>
-
- > The AES does not make direct jumps into the GEMDOS in ROM, it goes via
- > trap vector, so it will first run through the MiNT kernel. But for disk
- > accesses, it will be blocked anyway, as there is no way to run two trans-
- > fers simultaniously :)
-
- Well, at least on a TT you could do transfers on SCSI and ACSI/Floppy at
- the same time, as there is two separate DMA controllers for this.
- (+ of course the DMA controller for the SCC chip, which could be used for
- NFS :)
-
- But, in general - you are right :-)
-
- Erling
-