| NOMENCLATURE |
BUFFER STORAGE UNIT. AN ITEM FOR TEMPORARY STORAGE OF DATA WHICH ARE
TRANSMITTED FROM ONE FUNCTIONAL UNIT TO ANOTHER ONE. THE ITEM IS A
CONNECTING LINK BETWEEN COMPUTER PARTS OF DIFFERENT KINDS WHICH CANNOT
BE DIRECTLY INTERCONNECTED DUE TO THE DIFFERENCES IN DATA FLOW RATES OR
IN DATA FORMAT. IT IS MAINLY USED BETWEEN EXTERNAL STORAGES, INPUT AND
OUTPUT DEVICES, AND MAIN STORAGE. THE BUFFER MAY RECEIVE DATA WITH
ONEFLOW RATE AND, AFTER CONVERSION, MAY TRANSMI T IT WITH A DIFFERENT
FLOW RATE. AS ASSEMBLY IT MAY CONSIST OF SEMI-STORAGE OR CORE STORAGE.
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