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  1. Path: news.borg.com!news
  2. From: warren@borg.com  (Warren Hall)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
  4. Subject: Re: What does UART stand for?
  5. Date: 5 Feb 1996 22:41:08 GMT
  6. Organization: Team OS/2
  7. Message-ID: <4f6124$9rg@news.borg.com>
  8. References: <4f3sfj$ciu@news-f.iadfw.net>
  9. Reply-To: warren@borg.com (Warren Hall)
  10. NNTP-Posting-Host: l43.borg.com
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  12.  
  13. In <4f3sfj$ciu@news-f.iadfw.net>, chadwick@airmail.net (Caius) writes:
  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. Universal Asynchronous Receive/Transmit chip.  It handles the serial i/o and some 
  22. mild buffering.  Think of it as the turnstile between the outside world and the 
  23. computer;  a very important traffic cop.
  24.  
  25. Warren
  26. http://www.borg.com/~warren
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