A bus is a large motor vehicle which carries passengers from one place to another. Buses drive along particular routes, and you have to pay to travel in them. He missed his last bus home They had to travel everywhere by bus
A computer's internal data transmission pathway, connecting the computer's various devices 8088 machines operated on an 8-bit bus, 80286 machines used a 16-bit bus, and more modern machines use a 32-bit bus 64-bit busses are on the way Obviously, the wider the bus, the faster data can be moved The bus speed is also important Original Pentium-class busses had a 66 Mhz bus Newer machines may have a 100 Mhz bus
In some parts of the United States, when children are bused to school, they are transported by bus to a school in a different area so that children of different races can be educated together. Many schools were in danger of closing because the children were bused out to other neighborhoods. + busing bus·ing The courts ordered busing to desegregate the schools. business. Device on a computer's motherboard that provides a data path between the CPU and attached devices (keyboard, mouse, disk drives, video cards, etc.). Like a vehicular bus that stops at designated stations to pick up or drop off riders, a computer bus receives a data signal from the CPU and drops it off at the appropriate device (for example, the contents of a file in RAM are sent, via the bus, to a disk drive to be stored permanently). Conversely, data signals from devices are sent back to the CPU. On a network, a bus provides the data path between the various computers and devices. See also USB. Large motor vehicle designed to carry passengers usually along a fixed route according to a schedule. The first gasoline-powered bus was built in Germany in 1895 and carried eight passengers. The first integral-frame bus was constructed in the early 1920s in the U.S. In the 1930s diesel engines were introduced, providing greater power and fuel efficiency to larger buses. With the development of highway systems, transcontinental bus lines became common in North America. Double-decked buses are used in some European cities; articulated buses pull trailers with flexible joints. Trolley buses, whose electric motors draw power from overhead wires, are now used mostly in European cities
A common medium connecting multiple electronic components Low-cost computers use a bus topology to connect the processors of a multiprocessor A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
The central communication avenue in a PCs system board It normally consists of a set of parallel wires or signal traces that connect the CPU, the memory, all input/output devices, and peripherals and allows data to be transferred from one system component to another Busses come in a variety of bit widths and speeds To prevent data bottlenecks, the components attached to a bus must operate at close to the same speed as the bus
(1) (n ) A circuit over which data or power is transmitted, one that often acts as a common connection among a number of locations (2) (n ) A set of parallel communication lines that connect the major components of a computer system, including CPU, memory, and device controllers
A data path in a computer, consisting of various parallel wires to which the CPU, memory, and all input/output devices are connected
A common pathway, or channel, between multiple devices A bus allows for connecting multiple devices, whereas channels such as a PC's serial port can connect only to one device CPU -- Located on PC motherboard; SCSI HBA plugs into it I/O -- Data path between SCSI HBA and SCSI disk drive
Conductors that connect the functional units in a computer (called a bus because it travels to all destinations) Local busses connect elements within the CPU and other busses connect to external memory and peripherals
A conductor, or group of conductors, that serve as a common connection for two or more electrical circuits In powerplants, buswork comprises the three rigid single-phase connectors that interconnect the generator and the step-up transformer(s)
A series of transmission lines connecting the various elements of a computer for distribution of data, control signals, addresses, and/or voltage supply(s) within a computer See SYSTEM BUS
an electrical conductor that makes a common connection between several circuits; "the busbar in this computer can transmit data either way between any two components of the system"
All the components of your computer; the mouse, the monitor, the printer, the processor, the hardware cards, the memory and so on are all connected by wires This system of wires is called the bus