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| bus | a paralell collectionf conductors that carry data or control signals from one unit to another |
| data bus | a bidirectional pathway linking the cpu to the memory and 1\0 devices |
| address bus | a pathway that carries data generated by the cpu to the various memory and 1\0 elements of the computers |
| pc bus | the bus architectures used in the first IBM PCs originally 8-bit bus expanded to 16-bit bus |
| ISA | industry standard architecture the 8 and 16 bit original connectors used in PCs they run at a bus speed of 8mhz |
| EISA | extended industry standard architecture 16 bit ISA was extended to 32 bits and they call it EISA |
| PCI | peripheral system interconnection a high performance 32\64-bit bus |
| PnP | this is a standard that was supposed to make adding peripherals to yo computa as ez as plugging them in and using them |
| bandwidth | a measure in some amount of data that can be sent over a particular cable, interface, or bus |
| bus master | any class of micro processor unit with the ability to take control of the system buses of a computer |
| bus speed | a measurement usually in mhz of how many times data can be transferred over a bus per second |
| expansion slot | refers to any type of slot |
