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DMA, how devices connect to each other and to RAM

DMA, how devices connect to each other and to RAM

In the early days of home computing, DMA drives didn’t exist, so when devices needed to communicate with RAM, they did so in two different ways: Some processors had a HALT pin which, upon receiving a signal, stopped its activity only to retrieve it at the same point later. There have been instances where RAM ...