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Offline alewis

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Re: Classic IDE DMA possible?
« on: November 21, 2006, 11:35:50 PM »
About the same as VL-Bus.... probably. This was, imho, a superior local bus, and still is (40MHz+ bus speed vs PCI's 33MHz, for example). But it was up against Intel's muscle.

But this is all to similar to the endless "what would you like to see in a modern Amiga/what would the Amiga of today be like". In both cases, it would *not* be a classic Amiga, and unless had the same degree of hardware architecture (custom chipset) and an OS that exploited it, would not have a lot in common with an Amiga.

A thought. Whilst 100mbit ethernet would be nice, it would be rather pointless: Unless one had an ultra-wide SCSI controller (or a really good DMA capable SCSI-2 controller - and few were - with a good SCSI drive), what would be the point? The 8-10MB (on a good day) throughput of the ethernet (sans overhead) would be bottlenecked by the [relatively] slower hard disk.

And given the, on average, small size of Amiga files, would you see a real world increase in file transfer???