Re: write[blw] vs memcpy?

ralf@uni-koblenz.de
Sun, 5 Apr 1998 13:30:45 +0200


On Sun, Apr 05, 1998 at 06:59:57AM -0400, Raul Miller wrote:

> ralf@uni-koblenz.de <ralf@uni-koblenz.de> wrote:
> > In short, hardware designer are creative and these functions are important
> > for portability.
>
> Ok, though I wonder how many of these issues are significant for a card
> that only exists on an mca bus. Anyone know? Is there any place I could
> go to look this kind of thing up myself?

My answer tried to see things from a general point of view. Since however
MCA also exists in PPC (or was it RS6000?) machines you definately are
in near the problem zone of portability problem - and anyway, hardware
designer _are_ out to get ya ;-)

Ralf

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