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Question: Explain what is DMA?

July 07, 2005 20:27:45	#2
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RE: Explain what is DMA?
I think this is about hardware architecture, so DMA stands for Direct Memory Access -- transferring the content of the memory to a I/O device (or back) without using the processor. Sending network packets, palying music etc