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 | | What's in the modem is generally irrelevant.) A UART is present anywhere that a serial bit stream needs to be converted to a parallel byte stream, and vice versa. |
 | | The UARTs on most PC COM ports are based on National Semiconductor Ns8250 or Ns16450 chips (or silicon megacells inside VLSI chips where you can't replace them). |
 | | The Ns16550A UART has separate 16-byte transmit and receive FIFOs with configurable trigger levels, and can run reliably at clock rates up to 460,800 bps, although with current modem technology, there's no point in pushing your luck by going over 115,200 bps, and many modems have a max DCE-DTE (modem-computer) rate of 57,600. |
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