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This was often done by introducing wait states, so the processor would slow down while accessing main memory.

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I did some sleuthing to try to figure out what part of computing history this could refer to.

- Maybe because one could lower the "wait states" BIOS setting on PCs, and this became a selling point and was marketed? https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/9779 https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/18333

Note: it is often perceived that the CPU with more "wait states" was slower. But the above links point out how often the opposite is true.

- The Apple II era was a very different world. The CPU was relatively slower than the RAM. https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/23541