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CompTIA A+ Certification All-in-One Exam Guide

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Figure 3-17 The MCC grabs a byte of RAM.

Once the MCC is in place to grab any discrete byte of RAM, the CPU

needs to be able to tell the MCC which line of code it needs. The CPU

therefore gains a second set of wires, called the address bus, with which it

can communicate with the MCC. Different CPUs have different numbers of

wires (which, you will soon see, is very significant). The 8088 had 20 wires

in its address bus (see Figure 3-18).

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