Timeline for Use of READY line on 8086 - is it mandatory?
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| Aug 29, 2014 at 15:08 | comment | added | TDHofstetter | @blasthash - exactly. "Back in the day" it was used for things like ROM with a 350ns or 450ns access time, or for banked DRAM that required considerable setup time for bank switching, CAS/RAS setup, etc. | |
| Aug 29, 2014 at 6:03 | vote | accept | ecfedele | ||
| Aug 29, 2014 at 6:03 | comment | added | ecfedele | Okay. So the signal wouldn't need to be asserted unless the memory was slow enough to need it. | |
| Aug 29, 2014 at 4:38 | history | answered | TDHofstetter | CC BY-SA 3.0 |