On 3/28/2011 12:21, Alain wrote:
> Another problem with that, is that the CPU always have to wait for the GPU.

The Amiga (as well as some other machines of that era) and some old 
mainframes would clock the memory at a multiple of the CPU speed and 
time-slice the DMA that way. Now that memory is the slowest non-moving part 
of the system, one can't really do that any more.

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