More old stuff incoming

[Maciej W. Rozycki]

On Wed, 19 Dec 2018, Ali wrote:

> >  I don't know how functional their solutions are and I've never had any
> > of
> > their products nor I have anything to do with them, but I've had this
> > link: <http://www.arstech.com/> in my bookmarks just in case since
> > 2005.
> > I guess if they have been in that business for so long now, they must
> > have
> > been doing things right.
> 
> I can tell you for a fact that they do NOT support DMA so a non-starter for
> many things.....

 What kind of DMA though: ISA bus mastering or the Intel 8237 data mover? 
Or neither?  Either way, quite disappointing -- it all should be pretty 
easy to reproduce with modern circuitry.

 The software side is another matter however -- x86 real-mode OS drivers 
should be easy to run virtualised, but other environments are a tad more 
difficult to emulate.

  Maciej