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In a microcomputer WAIT states are used to:

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In a microcomputer WAIT states are used to:
  • AMake the processor wait during the DMA operation
  • BMake the processor wait during a power interrupt processing
  • CMake the processor wait during a power shutdown
  • DInterface slow peripherals to the processor
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- Computer microprocessors generally run much faster than the computer's other subsystems

- When the processor needs to access external memory, it starts placing the address of the requested information on the address bus

- It then must wait for the answer, each of the cycles spent waiting is called a wait state

- Thus, wait states helps to interface slow peripherals to the memory
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wait states helps to interface slow peripherals to the memory.



Hence Option (4) is the correct answer.