Date   : Sun, 30 Oct 2005 00:24:43 +0100
From   : jgh@... (Jonathan Graham Harston)
Subject: Re: Dual Floppies On A Master

Pete Turnbull <pete@...> wrote:
> I disagree, it's a perfectly ordinary bus, in the sense used by
> electronics engineers.  It's a set of signal/control lines to which you
 
Yes. A bus is a spine of some sort with devices connected to it at
points along it. Like domestic telephone extensions[1], or
conventional lighting circuits, or radiator plumbing:
 
  ====*=======*=======*=======*========*===
      |       |       |       |        |
    device  device  device  device   device
 
[1] Often these are disguised as a 'star' arrangement - all
deviced plugged in to a single point - but it is still a bus:
 
  ===================*****=================
                    / /|\ \
        -----------/ / | \ ----------
       /      /-----/  |  \----\     \
    device  device  device  device device
 
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