Section 16.3
Review Questions
Hardware issues
  1. What do devices plug into in order to connect to a bus, such as the system bus?
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slots
  1. How do devices get identified on a bus?
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the slots they plug into have addresses
  1. What is plug 'n' play?
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it is a way for heterogeneous equipment to plug into a bus and be automatically recognized and integrated into the computer system without the computer owner having to specially alter a configuration file
  1. What kind of gates are used to electrically connect and disconnect the wires to a bus?
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tri-state buffers
  1. What is a bus architecture?
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a standard that establishes common characteristics that hardware vendors can rely on, enabling their devices to interconnect easily
  1. How should you pronounce SCSI?
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"scuzzie" rhymes with fuzzy
  1. What is SCSI?
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Small Computer Systems Interface, a type of bus architecture
  1. What was one of the reasons why IBM's original PC so successful?
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because it was an open architecture; the characteristics were published and other vendors could clone it and also make other hardware devices to plug into its system bus
  1. What is the Microchannel?
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the bus architecture that IBM used for its next line of personal computers, the IBM PS/2. It was not open and was not a success.