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[Sorry this was two posts, I see now it should have been one.] Looks like I have to go back to Ata 2 to see Single word Dma explained? > Single word DMA > Multiword DMA > Ultra DMA >From some of the .pdf at <http://www.t13.org/#Project_drafts>, I conclude the >official terms are precisely as now quoted here above, spelled this way, mixed in >case and spacing and hyphenation this way. > http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/jargoogle.html > http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/html/entry/language-lawyer.html > > language lawyer n. > > A person, usually ... experienced ..., who is intimately familiar > with many or most of the numerous restrictions and features > (both useful and esoteric) applicable to one or more computer > [specifications]. > > A language lawyer is distinguished > by the ability to show you the five sentences > scattered through a 200-plus-page manual > that together imply the answer to your question > "if only you had thought to look there". Gag, blech. We can imagine fewer people will remember to spell these Dma phrases this way than will properly distinguish an Ata "software reset" from an Atapi "soft reset" (aka the Device Reset). > DMA ... Dma ... In my world it is culturally inappropriate to SHOUT a lot. Pat LaVarre >>> "Pat LaVarre" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 12/13/01 09:05AM >>> This message is from the T13 list server. 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 Subscribe/Unsubscribe instructions can be found at www.t13.org. Subscribe/Unsubscribe instructions can be found at www.t13.org.
