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Explore Stack InternalUART is an initialism for "Universal synchronous/AsynchronousAsynchronous Receiver/Transmitter", the manufacturer's name for the 8250 that was used in the original PC (and elsewhere) to run the serial port. That initialism continued to be used when labelling the 16550 which succeeded the 8250 and the term has attached itself to the serial port ever since.
UART is an initialism for "Universal synchronous/Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter", the manufacturer's name for the 8250 that was used in the original PC (and elsewhere) to run the serial port. That initialism continued to be used when labelling the 16550 which succeeded the 8250 and the term has attached itself to the serial port ever since.
UART is an initialism for "Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter", the manufacturer's name for the 8250 that was used in the original PC (and elsewhere) to run the serial port. That initialism continued to be used when labelling the 16550 which succeeded the 8250 and the term has attached itself to the serial port ever since.
UART is an initialism for "Universal synchronous/Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter", the manufacturer's name for the 8250 that was used in the original PC (and elsewhere) to run the serial port. That initialism continued to be used when labelling the 16550 which succeeded the 8250 and the term has attached itself to the serial port ever since.
