All things being equal, who will win the competition above?
You won’t because your straw will have less flow than the garden hose. This analogy carries over to the computer bus. Q: What is a bus? A: The paths the computer uses to transport data from one component to another is called a bus. Similar to the straw and garden hose scenario, computer buses come in different shapes and sizes. It doesn’t matter how fast your CPU (central processing unit) is or your disk drive. If the bus isn’t wide and fast, it will behave like a thin straw and bottleneck the operation of the entire PC. Q: What exactly makes a computer’s bus fast and wide? A: The width of the bus is determined by how many bits of data the bus can transfer in one operation. Therefore, a 32-bit bus is wider than a 16-bit bus. The speed of a bus is rated in megahertz (MHz), which is one million cycles per second. A single hertz is one electronic cycle that performs one operation. Q: What is a local bus? A: The reference to a local bus means many different things. A local bus is a way for
