Sure you are right, DTA is the correct name. And the one we should use.
The term DMA was often used in CP/M (and often DMA hardware support was
available in S100 bus systems) and therefore it appears sometimes because
MSXDOS inherited much from CP/M.
-----Original Message-----
From: Laurens Holst [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: maandag, maart 29, 1999 10:45 uur
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: 64K VRAM?
>Hardware DMA indeed not possible with the builtin chips in the MSX.
>But the term DMA stems from long ago (CP/M for eaxmple) when with DMA was
>meant the memory location/buffer where the transferred data to/from is
>stored.
That's not DMA, that's DTA... Disk Transfer Area.
~Grauw
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