At the risk of stating the obvious, a PC is more than just its processor ... as [GloriousCow] shows us by bus-sniffing the original IBM Model 5150. A little background is perhaps in order.

The number of lines (wires) in the address bus determines the maximum amount of RAM that can be directly accessed by the CPU as each line carries one bit of the address. In 1981, the IBM PC had a ...

A shared channel that transmits data one bit after the other over a single wire or fiber; for example, Ethernet uses a serial bus architecture. The I/O bus from the CPU to the peripherals is a ...

PC/104 modules are tied to the ISA-Bus standard that is mainly used in embedded systems. The modules are 3.6" x 3.8" and can be self-stacked to save space. The PC/104 standard offers full architecture ...

A Metropolitan Police officer who was fined for assault after wrongly arresting a woman for bus fare evasion in Croydon, south London, has had his conviction quashed. PC Perry Lathwood's appeal ...

she was asked to show she had paid her fare by a bus inspector. "She does not hand it over and she walks off," Mr Jarvis told the court. "It is at this moment that PC Lathwood becomes involved." ...