wait state in a sentence

Examples

1. Equipped with a one-wait state 8 MHz processor, it was a pretty slow machine for its class, even slower than the IBM XT 286.
2. The Gate Array CPU board allowed the Tandy engineers to clock the Z-80 at an actual 4 MHz clock rate without any wait states.
3. If an attempt is made to IPL from a device which was not initialized with IPL Text, the system simply enters a wait state.
4. A simple transaction on the AHB consists of an address phase and a subsequent data phase ( without wait states : only two bus-cycles ).
5. This memory is placed directly on the 16-bit bus with zero wait states, making it much faster than any other memory available to the system.
6. Some engines support a model in which, instead of halting when the agenda is empty, the engine enters a wait state until new facts are asserted externally.
7. In this case, the OS places the activity in a wait state and chains it to the end of the list of activities waiting for that particular lock.
8. IBM was protective of their lucrative mainframe and minicomputer businesses and consequently ran the original PC AT ( 139 version ) at a very conservative 6 MHz with one wait state.
9. A CD, " Off-Hour Wait State " by Tom Hamilton, hymns a meticulously timed odyssey on the E . Buckner is the metaphorical passenger, entering and exiting the music at will.
10. The original Model 4, though advertised as a 4 MHz machine, actually performed at an effective speed of 3.5 MHz because wait states were inserted for the slower PAL support circuitry.