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On 17 Dec 98 at 11:29, Elizabeth Boston wrote:
> I am currently studying NRI's PC Servicing course, and have a
> question I'd like to ask just for clarity...
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> I know that there are three major buses in a computer,
> address, data, and control... I spent last evening reading about
> the PC/XT, PC/At, VL and PCI buses. But nowhere (yet) do I see
> where the two fit together. Does the PCI bus for example contain
> address, data and control buses? (this is what I am assuming, but
> I hate to assume) Or have I totally missed something somewhere?
Yes. Rather than think of address/data/control as "buses", think
of them as categories of bus signals which must be present in
practically all bus implementations. Then the differences between
the other buses are then:
clock speed
number of address and data lines
particular combination of control lines
David G
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