Analog modem emulator?

[Patrick Finnegan]

On Monday 15 August 2005 13:27, Jim Leonard wrote:
> Can someone clarify what "bit-banger" means and why it was different
> from a contemporary serial interface card?

Bit-banger refers to in essence, a software UART... you turn on/off the 
serial port line directly via software, with the appropriate timing, as 
opposed to using a hardware UART to do the serial<->parallel 
conversion.

Pat
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