buses

Definition

Those metal tubes packed with humans and regret, or in tech-speak, the electrical highway where your data gets a commute to process town.

Example Usage

The computer's data bus transfers information between the CPU and memory at incredible speeds.

Source: IEEE Computer Architecture Glossary

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