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Copyright (c) 1998 Jason R. Thorpe.
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.sh 1 "References" .pd .sh 1 "Obtaining NetBSD" .pp More information about NetBSD, including information on where to obtain sources and binaries for the NetBSD operating system itself, may be found at http://www.netbsd.org/. .pp Updates to this paper may appear periodically, and can be found at http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/research/. .sh 1 "Acknowledgments" .pp I would like to thank the following individuals for their very constructive input and insight during the bus_dma design phase: Chris Demetriou, Charles Hannum, Ross Harvey, Matthew Jacob, Jonathan Stone, and Matt Thomas. .pp I would also like to extend special thanks to Chris Demetriou, Lonhyn Jasinskyj, Kevin Lahey, Yvonne Malloy, David McNab, and Harry Waddell for the time they spent reviewing and helping me to polish this paper. .sh 1 "About the author" .pp Jason R. Thorpe is a Network Systems Engineer at the Numerical Aerospace Simulation Facility at NASA's Ames Research Center. His professional interests include design and implementation of portable operating systems, high-speed computer networks, and network protocols. In addition to his work on the NetBSD operating system in support of network and mass storage system development projects at the NAS facility, he is an active participant in the Internet Engineering Task Force. He has been a contributor to the NetBSD Project since mid-1993, and has run nearly every port at one time or another. He currently maintains NetBSD's hp300 port, and is a member of the NetBSD Core Group. .pp The author may be reached at: Numerical Aerospace Simulation Facility, Mail Stop 258-5, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA 94035, or via electronic mail at thorpej@nas.nasa.gov.