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#Insider

    21-Mar-87 23:29:04
Sb: #59947-#Insider
Fm: John Draper 76703,4322
To: Fred Schuchman 70735,677
Fred, Wait states come in about three severities. The Insider will add a wait state when it absolutely has to refresh the memory. At all other times, the memory runs at full speed. A memory that has "forced wait states" will have a wait state on every cycle, and will slow things down considerably. A memory that has no wait states at all will be about 1% faster than the Insider, but at the added cost of having to use very fast rams. If you see any memorys that say they have no wait states, it generally means that they do not force a wait state on every cycle. Regards, Larry.