At 01:12 AM 2/27/2004 +0100, you wrote:
> > Wasn't the 8089 an I/O chip?
> >
>
>The 8089 was a smart DMA Controller which was able to follow programmed
>instruction sequences. So you could see it as a very specialized processor.

What was it used for,  typically?

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