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    A serial port is a serial communication interface through which information transfers in or out sequentially one bit at a time. This is in contrast to...
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  • serial port is a software representation of a serial port that either does not connect to a real serial port, or adds functionality to a real serial port...
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  • A Synchronous Serial Port (SSP) is a controller that supports the Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI), 4-wire Synchronous Serial Interface (SSI), and Microwire...
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    an integrated circuit (IC) and used for serial communications over a computer or peripheral device serial port. One or more UART peripherals are commonly...
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  • Stephen John Port (born 22 February 1975) is a British serial killer and serial rapist. He has been convicted of the murder of four young men and multiple...
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    serial ports) RS-422 multidrop serial bus RS-423 RS-485 multidrop multimaster serial bus SDI-12 industrial sensor protocol SERCOM Serial ATA Serial Attached...
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    communication protocol. The form of connectors depends on the particular serial port used. A cable wired for connecting two DTEs directly is known as a null...
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    way the data is sent; parallel ports send multiple bits of data at once (parallel communication), as opposed to serial communication, in which bits are...
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    (communication port) is the original, yet still common, name of the serial port interface on PC-compatible computers. It can refer not only to physical ports, but...
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    computers have a keyboard port (currently a Universal Serial Bus USB-like outlet referred to as USB Port), into which the keyboard is connected. Physically...
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    A terminal server connects devices with a serial port to a local area network (LAN). Products marketed as terminal servers can be very simple devices...
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    Equipment Employing Serial Binary Data Interchange, issued in 1997. The RS-232 standard had been commonly used with serial ports and serial cables. It is still...
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  • present on virtually all PC serial ports - pin 1 of a nine-pin (DE9) serial port, or pin eight over a 25-pin (DB25) port. Its purpose varies depending...
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  • disks and files between two interconnected computers using the serial port or parallel port. This utility first appeared on Digital Research's DR-DOS 5.0...
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    for serial communications. The corrected -A version was released in 1987 by National Semiconductor. It is frequently used to implement the serial port for...
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  • The Serial Line Internet Protocol (SLIP) is an encapsulation of the Internet Protocol designed to work over serial ports and router connections. It is...
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    SPP maximum payload capacity is 128 bytes. Serial Port Profile defines how to set up virtual serial ports and connect two Bluetooth enabled devices. SDAP...
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    USB (redirect from Universal serial bus)
    replacing various interfaces such as serial ports, parallel ports, game ports, and Apple Desktop Bus (ADB) ports. Early versions of USB became commonplace...
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    connect to a serial port. The name "PuTTY" has no official meaning. PuTTY was originally written for Microsoft Windows, but it has been ported to various...
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    drive. The rear panel has the same ports as the 1000 SX, except that an RS-232C serial port replaces the light-pen port. The memory size is 640 KB, with...
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    number generator (8 bits of a 17-bit polynomial counter can be read) Serial I/O port Eight IRQ interrupts By part number: C012294 — Used in all Atari 8-bit...
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  • Synchronous serial communication Serial port Serial SCSI, serial SCSI disk-drives Universal Serial Bus, also known as USB Serial code or serial number Serial comma...
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    (serial ports). Most commonly the USB data signals are converted to either RS-232, RS-485, RS-422, or TTL-level UART serial data. The older serial RS-423...
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    with serial port 4, if present) IRQ 4 – serial port controller for serial port 1 (shared with serial port 3, if present) IRQ 5 – parallel port 3 or ISA...
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  • Serial over LAN (SOL) is a mechanism that enables the input and output of the serial port of a managed system to be redirected over IP on a local area...
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    support this port. Parallel port programming is very fast. Serial port (COM port) - At one time the most popular method. Serial ports usually lack adequate...
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  • parallel equivalent to a serial null modem cable. Because of the higher bandwidth of the parallel port versus the serial port, a Laplink cable is able...
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  • output to a serial port instead of a monitor. This allows servers using PC hardware with conventional BIOSes or operating systems lacking serial capability...
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    programming hardware, including Atmel AVRISP mkII, Atmel JTAG ICE, older Atmel serial-port based programmers, and various third-party and "do-it-yourself" programmers...
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  • Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI) is a de facto standard (with many variants) for synchronous serial communication, used primarily in embedded systems...
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