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Is a COM port is a serial port?

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Anonymous

14y ago
Updated: 8/19/2019

A com port was originally intended for communications. Back during that time period, it referred to modems and crude networking. Serial means that the data is sent "end-wise" one bit at a time. That is opposed to parallel which means one or more entire bytes are sent at a time.

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12y ago

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