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Re:Nvidia Unveils GeForce RTX 30 Series GPUs by ygra on Wednesday September 02, 2020 @07:47AM (#24352279)
> and the DV transfer didn't drop a packet

Considering how FireWire worked in comparison to USB that's not particularly surprising. The host machine was more or less out of the way while the FW interfaces did their thing instead of requiring constant hand-holding.

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Re:Nvidia Unveils GeForce RTX 30 Series GPUs by acdha on Wednesday September 02, 2020 @12:20PM (#24354720)
Kind of: it used DMA, but the buffer size wasn’t infinite. At the time, Windows 9x and Mac OS would lose data if you ran anything demanding. Windows NT and Linux might, depending on drivers and the exact nature of the other process’ activity.
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