Description: The Subsystem Bus of the IEC 821 BUS is a local subsystem extension bus. It allows a processor board to access additional memory and I/O over a local bus, removing traffic from the global bus and improving the total throughput of the system.
Oversight Committee: C/MSC - Microprocessor Standards Committee 
Sponsor: IEEE Computer Society 
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