Bus
When referring to a computer, the bus also known as the address bus, data bus, or local bus is a data connection between two or more devices connected to the computer. For example, a bus enables a computer processor to communicate with the memory or a video card to communicate with the memory.A bus is capable of being a parallel or serial bus and today all computers utilize two bus types, an internal bus or local bus and an external bus, also called the expansion bus. An internal bus enables a communication between internal components such as a computer video card and memory and an external bus is capable of communicating with external components such as a USB or SCSI device.
A computer or device's bus speed or throughput is always measured in bits per second or megabytes per second.
Also see: ADB, AGP, AMR, AT Bus, CNR, Back Side Bus, EISA, Front Side Bus, HyperTransport, IDE, Input/output bus, ISA, MCA, NuBus, Motherboard definitions, Multiplier, PCI, PCI Express, PCMCIA, SBus, SCSI, SMBus, USB, Vitesse-Bus, VLB, XT
