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  • ...'''DASD''', is [[International Business Machines|IBM]] jargon for [[random access]] [[secondary storage]] devices, such as [[floppy disk]]s, hard [[disk]]s,
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  • '''Random Access Memory''' (often given as '''RAM''') is slang term for a computer's [[main ...disk]] [[secondary storage]] (although technically disks are also [[random access]] - unlike, say, [[magnetic tape]] secondary storage).
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  • '''Direct Memory Access''', usually abbreviated as '''DMA''', refers to a now-very-common technique ...e. In the second, the memory has multiple ports, and the device has direct access to the memory via one of the ports.
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  • #Redirect [[Random Access Memory]]
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  • ...ion''' (often given as the acronym, '''CSMA-CD''') is a way of controlling access to a [[Local area network|LAN]] using a [[broadcast]] bus (i.e. a shared br
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  • #Redirect [[Direct Memory Access]]
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  • ...etimes '''response time''') is the time period between the start of a read access cycle, and the point in time when the data is returned to the requestor. ...n the request arrives, that can delay the memory's response - and thus the access time for that particular cycle.
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  • ...go to disparate [[address]]es without significant delays; in '''sequential access''' memories, only successive operations to following locations can be done
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  • #Redirect [[Random access]]
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  • ...[[bit]] parallel ports, one input, and one output; it uses [[Direct Memory Access|DMA]] to transfer data.
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  • [[Access time]] is 210-230 nsec for reads, and 90-120 nsec for writes; [[cycle time]
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  • ...[[parallel interface]] for the [[UNIBUS]], one which used [[Direct Memory Access|DMA]] to transfer data to a user device. It was a single [[DEC card form fa .../www.bitsavers.org/pdf/dec/unibus/EK-DR11W-UG-004.pdf DR11-W Direct Memory Access Interface Module User's Guide] (EK-DR11W-UG-004)
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  • '''Media Access Control Addresses''' (usually shortened to the acronymic form, '''MAC Addre
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  • #Redirect [[Media Access Control Address]]
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  • ...int-to-point links only. Introduction of file transfer (FAL), remote file access (DAP), task-to-task programming interfaces and network management features. ...ntroduction of adaptive routing capability, downline loading (MOP), record access, a network management architecture, and gateways to other types of networks
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  • ...ude [[DIGITAL Command Language|DCL]] as a choice for the CLI, giving users access to essentially the same command language used in [[RSX-11]] and, later, [[V
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  • ...memory|ROM]] (1 Kword) and a small amount of [[core memory|core]] [[Random Access Memory|RAM]] (128 words). It is not clear if any of these machines were eve
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  • | access-date=September 26, 2016
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  • ...and [[peripheral controller]]s through read-write cycles, [[Direct Memory Access|DMA]], and [[interrupt]]s, as well as in much of the low-level detail, such
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  • ...nd device [[register]]s; and the ability for devices to do [[Direct Memory Access|DMA]] transfers to memory, and to [[interrupt]] the CPU.
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  • ==Register access==
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  • | memory speed = [[MM11-E and MM1-F core memories|MM11-E]]: 500 nsec [[access time]]<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; 1.2 μsec [[cycle time]]
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  • ...UNIBUS and the EUB for access to all of memory for UNIBUS [[Direct Memory Access|DMA]] devices; without it, the UNIBUS [[address space]] was statically mapp ...ath for addressing information to flow from the UNIBUS to the EUB, for DMA access to main memory by devices.
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  • ...ut not [[address]] lines); [[Direct Memory Access|DMA]] devices could gain access to the memory via a [[UNIBUS map]] which connected the two, and mapped UNIB
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  • ...em), or the -11/45's main UNIBUS (the 'A' UNIBUS), so that [[Direct Memory Access|DMA]] devices on that UNIBUS could do [[input/output|I/O]] to the fast memo
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  • ...[[main memory]] via a new Main Memory Bus, and changes to the CPU to allow access to that much memory * A [[UNIBUS map]] to allow devices on the UNIBUS access to all of that memory
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  • | average access time = 49 msec
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  • The name of bit 6 has changed slightly from the RK11-C to the -D ("Access Ready" to "R/W/S Ready"), but it seems to be basically the same functionali
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  • ...dge [[disk]] [[drive]]s. All data transfers are done using [[Direct Memory Access|DMA]]. Data is protected with a [[hardware]]-generated and checked [[error-
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  • | minimum access time = 258 16 μsec | average access time = 16.9 msec (60 Hz [[alternating current|AC]] power)<br>20.3 msec (50
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  • | average access time = 67.5 msec Some later drives have access panels which can be removed to gain to the solenoid. On older ones, one has
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  • ...ous later models added various instructions for Processor Status Word (PS) access, maintenance, etc.
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  • | average access time = 70 msec
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  • ...05 drives. It used the [[single cycle data break]] form of [[Direct Memory Access|DMA]] to transfer data directly to [[main memory]]. It uses blocks of 256 w
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