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From: mason@robots.ox.ac.uk (Ian Mason)
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Subject: 0.7 wait states. Any good?
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Date: 4 Mar 91 15:10:40 GMT
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I am posting this for someone. However he does read the
comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware newsgroup. 

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I am looking at the specification of a 386SX-20MHz motherboard, and
saw that it has 0.7 wait states. Other motherboard specs just say 0
wait state. Is 0.7 wait state a sign of a bad board, or are other
motherboard manufacturers just rounding down to the nearest integer
?!? Is zero wait state really zero? If not, what's the typical value?

Thanks in advance.

Delman Lee
Email: delman@sun.eng.ox.ac.uk