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| BUS | A parallel collection of conducters that carry data or control signals from one unit to the other |
| DATA Bus | a biderectional path way liking the CPU to memory and I/O devices |
| Address Bus | a pathway that carries data generated by the cpu to the varius memory. |
| Pc Bus | the bus archetectures used in the first IBM pcs originally 8 bit bus expanded to a 16 bit bus |
| ISA | Industry sanderd archetecture. the 8 and 16bit origanal conectors used in pc's they run at a bus speed of 8 mhz |
| EISA | extended industry standerd archetecture 16 bit ISA was extended to 32 bits |
| PCI | peripheral system interconect a high perforfance of 32 to 64bus |
| PNP | a standerd that was suposed to make adding peripherals more easy as plugingthem in and using them |
| Bandwith | A measure in some amounts of bits per second in the amount of data send over a cable |
| bus master | any class of microprocesor unit with the ability to take control of the system buses |
| Bus speed | a mesurement ussually in MHZ of how many times can data be transfered |
| Expansion Slot | refers to any type of slot in a computer that you can plug an expacion card into |
| Legacy | Descibes older computer systems hardware sofware |
| Fire wire | high speed serial bus allows for conection up to 64 devices primerly used for digital video |
| Adapter | Decive that allows one system to connect t and work with another. An adapter is often a simple circuit that converts one set of signals to another |
| Interrrupt | A signal that gets the attenion of the of CPU and is usually generated when I/O is required |
| Jumper | A small plug palced over pins to configure hardware |
| DMA | Direct Memory Access specialiized circuitry or a dedicated microprocessor that transfers data from adapters to memory without using the CPU |
| I/O Address | three-digit hexadecimal number(2AB,2AO) used to indentify and singal a periheral device like a serial port, parrallel port, or sound card |
| AGP | stuff |
