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    27-Jun-87 02:17:34
Fm: E. J. Lippert II 71330,2365
To: John Draper 76703,4322

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Yes Price is the major penalty, but there are some other more subtle prices to pay when DMA is used. Most notably in our case, our SCSInet would be virtually imopssible to implement on a DMA basis. (This is per the programmer of same, I will check further to see if he means `impossible' or just a lot more work that he's willing to exert.)