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- From: Dwight Hubbard <dhubbard@www.cedarnet.com>
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: What does UART stand for
- Date: Tue, 06 Feb 1996 04:26:45 -0600
- Organization: Me organized??
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- Chris Meyer wrote:
- >
- > In article <cobrian-0402962130120001@cobrian.accessone.com>,
- > Charlie O'Brian <cobrian@accessone.com> wrote:
- > >In article <4f3sfj$ciu@news-f.iadfw.net>, chadwick@airmail.net (Caius) wrote:
-
- > >Don't mistake me for an expert, but I believe it stands for something like
- > >Universal(?) Asynchronous Receive & Transmit. They allow simultaneous
- > >reception and transmission of data, sometimes known as full duplex
- > >operation.
-
- UART stands for Universal Asynchrounus Receiver Transmiter like you said,
- that means it coverts the parallel data in the computer to Asynchronous
- serial data. Asynchronous serial uses start and stop bits in order to
- keep data in sync. Synchronous serial does not use start and stop bits.
-
- > It also allows data to flow at much faster speeds than the 8250s that
- > only go at 9600 baud. chris
-
- An 8250 can go quite a bit faster than 9600 bits per second. It just doesn't
- work overly well when trying to run Windows.
-