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- From: tlilley@csugrad.cs.vt.edu (Tripp Lilley)
- Newsgroups: alt.cyberpunk.tech
- Subject: Re: CyberFad
- Message-ID: <By0u9w.2nC@csugrad.cs.vt.edu>
- Date: 20 Nov 92 15:41:55 GMT
- References: <19NOV199211353461@sigma.tamu.edu>
- Organization: St. Disma's Infirmary
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- Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter. It's what makes RS-232 work.
- itza chip on de board what makes the little bits go 'zingie-zingie' across
- the aether (that's the luminiferous aether, for those of you not historo-tech
- inclined :>)
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- as for an RS232 'driver', I can only assume you mean a software interface to
- the serial port.... unless you're talking *line* driver, which would be one
- o' dem chips what actually *pushes* the little bits 'zingie-zingie' across
- the afforementioned aether.
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- i write poetry, too. (ooh. swoon. i'm sooo impressed. can i touch me?
- i don't think so. i'm not my type.)
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- - t.
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