On Wed, 24 Mar 1999, Hans Otten wrote:
> Hardware DMA indeed not possible with the builtin chips in the MSX.
> But the term DMA stems from long ago (CP/M for eaxmple) when with DMA was
> meant the memory location/buffer where the transferred data to/from is
> stored.
>
These days I use the term "DTA" (data transfer area) to mean that
old DMA. This avoids lots of confusion, and can be easily changed in
source codes using search-and-replace.
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