the width of the address bus determines how many memory locations can be directly accessed
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what is the data bus?
has 8 wires would appear to look like a control bus determines how much data can be transferred to and from the cpu at one time, the wider this is the faster the computer can run
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the directions of the address bus?
would apear to be sent down all wires in parrallel
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the directions of the data bus?
has 8 wires and looks like control bus
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what is the MBR?
MASTER BOOT RECORD first sector of the computer hard drive that tells the computer how to load the operating system
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WHAT IS PC registers
PROGRAM COUNTER-A program counter is a register in a computer processor that contains the address (location) of the instruction being executed at the current time.
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MAR registers?
memory address registers-In a computer, the Memory Address Register (MAR) is a CPU register that either stores the memory address from which data will be fetched to the CPU or the address to which data will be sent and stored.
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what happens in the fetch execute cycle?
fetch some instructions from main memory then store them in its own internal temporary memory areas these are called registers
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what is the data bus?
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has 8 wires would appear to look like a control bus determines how much data can be transferred to and from the cpu at one time, the wider this is the faster the computer can run
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