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- From: marc.fuller@vissgi.cvrti.utah.edu (Marc Fuller)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: Does any 28.8 modem have a built-in 16650UART chip
- Date: Tue, 16 Apr 1996 16:45:35 GMT
- Organization: University of Utah
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- cooperst@tricon.net (Mark Cooperstein) wrote:
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- > why would any internal modem need a UART 16550/16650?? A uart is a
- >device that can change serial data to parallel data. External modems need
- Actually all internal modems either have a UART or something in
- software or hardware that emulates it. The conversion from serial to
- parallel data takes place on the modem card. So the original
- poster's friend that said all internal modems have UART's is
- esentially correct.
- Marc Fuller
- CVRTI, University of Utah
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