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  1. Path: cobrian.accessone.com!user
  2. From: cobrian@accessone.com (Charlie O'Brian)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
  4. Subject: Re: What does UART stand for?
  5. Date: Sun, 04 Feb 1996 21:30:12 -0800
  6. Organization: little or none
  7. Message-ID: <cobrian-0402962130120001@cobrian.accessone.com>
  8. References: <4f3sfj$ciu@news-f.iadfw.net>
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  11.  
  12. In article <4f3sfj$ciu@news-f.iadfw.net>, chadwick@airmail.net (Caius) wrote:
  13.  
  14. >What does UART stand for and what do UART chips do exactly? I know
  15. >that without them, you can't play many modem games. Why?
  16. >------------------------
  17. >Clinton Chadwick
  18. >chadwick@airmail.net
  19. >http://web2.airmail.net/chadwick
  20.  
  21. Don't mistake me for an expert, but I believe it stands for something like
  22. Universal(?) Asynchronous Receive & Transmit. They allow simultaneous
  23. reception and transmission of data, sometimes known as full duplex
  24. operation.
  25.  
  26. -- 
  27. Charlie O'Brian       cobrian@accessone.com          Witty saying goes here.
  28.