Section 16.2
Review Questions
Characteristics of Buses

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1. What are the three major groups of wires in a bus?

2. Which group of wires would tell the bus what the desired operation is, such as read or write?

3. What does it mean to multiplex data values on a bus?

4. Why do computer hardware makers choose to use multiplexing when it slows down the computer?

5. What are the two kinds of multiplexing?

6. What is it called when the ultimate in multiplexing is used, where there is only one data wire in the bus and bits are sent over it one at a time?

7. If there is more than one data wire, what kind of a bus is it?

8. Why could the network be considered a bus?