[comp.dcom.lans] ISA Bus master cards and 80386+ Virtual 8086 mode

mshiels@tmsoft.uucp (Michael A. Shiels) (08/31/90)

How do the multitudes of Bus master cards out there (Madge, Proteon etc)
handle something like QEMM 386 filling in the area from A000-B800 on a CGA
system so that you have ~90K more space for DOS.  The problem is this memory
is not actually at that address for the Bus master card to read it.

I have heard of something called the VDS (Virtual DMA Specifications) which
is part of the PS/2 BIOS to allow Bus Mastering on MCA machines.  Does the same
thing work/exist for ISA machines?