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Thanks to Hale & Jim for much helpful stuff.  Too much for me to have understood it 
all as yet, but I think I can continue a couple of points.

First my unhelpful choice of terminology:

> SwDma/MwDma/UDma

I got tired of writing out single-word Dma, multi-word Dma, and ultra Dma.  I didn't 
mean to introduce any confusion.

Are there preferred abbreviations?

Another example of inadequately abbreviated Ansi text is power on reset, hardware 
reset via pin 1 RESET-, software reset, execute device diagnostics, device reset, and 
a write of x1F7 command while selected by DEV but BSY:DRQ != 0:0 ...

In the beginning, on principle, I used the Ansi terms because they were the Ansi 
terms, but the social environment here quickly drove me too abbreviations that sound 
less like one other: PORST, PRST, BRST, XRST, DRST, UCRST.  I know these abbreviations 
are too obscure for general use, so I more or less carefully edit any text I post here 
to use the more verbose but standard substitutes.

Pat LaVarre


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