Mail Archives: djgpp/1996/02/11/19:12:48
On 10 Feb 1996, Ulf Griesmann wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> The 8237 DMA controllers in a PC can only perform DMA transfers to the
> lower 16MB of physical memory. This makes it awkward to allocate
> buffers for DMA transfers on machines with >16MB of memory because a
> simple 'malloc' is no longer guaranteed to allocate DMAable memory.
So how does Windoze work around this? (just asking). I know someone who
runs VHDL VLSI design software on a 64MB Windoze box...
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