Date   : Tue, 26 Oct 2010 12:23:32 +0200
From   : kortink@... (John Kortink)
Subject: Reversing the Tube ULA (destructively)

On Tue, 26 Oct 2010 08:03:58 +0100, "David Harper"
<dl.harper@...> wrote:

>[...]
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>The 80186 does DMA and uses the Tube to do it in the Master512. It does 
>this, however, simply by using the normal Tube data transfer facilities, but 
>the DRQ line from the Tube chip is connected to DRQ0 on the processor, 
>rather than NMI as it is for some other processors.

I've not seen any copro that uses DRQ-out as NMI-in.
After all, there's an NMI-out.

Have I missed one ?


John Kortink

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