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For anyone who is not entirely clear on what a bus is in the system, it is essentially a set of wires that the processors can communicate through. The bus is intrinsically broadcasting among the processors, which means that every processor that is connected to the bus can see the signals that are sent on it. However, two processors cannot communicate through it at the same time.