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Re: "A word-aligned memory transfer mechanism is needed"
On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 06:09:16AM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 18:58:56 -0800
> > From: Jim Blandy <jimb@red-bean.com>
> >
> > Do folks agree that this is what that meant to say? If we're not sure
> > what it means, we should take it out.
>
> I'm not familiar with history, but your conclusions sound plausible.
Same from me, also.
I agree that the argument to m/M does not need to be word aligned, and
that this is worth writing down; I'm not sure whether we need a
word-sized I/O interface, but I agree that if we grow one, it should
not use the same m/M packets.
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