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What is cycle stealing?
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cycle stealing in the context of Direct Memory Access 
(DMA). Either the DMA controller can use the data bus when 
the CPU does not need it, or it may force the CPU to 
temporarily suspend operation. The latter technique is 
called cycle stealing.
 
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