[Courses] [FS] Lesson 1

[Vatsan Madhavan]

> What does "bus" actually mean?

bus is a group of parallel lines that carry  bits - data, control or
address.
For eg, you can talk about an 'address bus' or a 'data bus' - multiple
parallel lines that
carry a particular type of data. You can also talk about a single bus that
has all of data,
control and address information (USB - or universal serial bus).

Why is a bus called a bus?
Well, the bus shuttles the bits from source to destination - just like a
real life
bus shuttles people around :-)

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~vatsan

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