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- From: schuster@panix.com (Michael Schuster)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: What does UART stand for?
- Date: 5 Feb 1996 18:22:07 -0500
- Organization: panix
- Message-ID: <4f63ev$coa@panix3.panix.com>
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- In article <4f3sfj$ciu@news-f.iadfw.net>, Caius <chadwick@airmail.net> wrote:
- >What does UART stand for and what do UART chips do exactly? I know
- >that without them, you can't play many modem games. Why?
-
- Universal Asynchronous Receiver-Transmitter.
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- It converts 8-bit parallel data from your computer's data bus, to serial
- data suitable for transmission over a modem.
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