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   On 2024-01-12, 57r.1283 <57r.1283@etq5.net> wrote:   
      
   >    Async is versatile, but a pain in the rump sometimes. Synchronous   
   >    serial is more civilized. However most equipment you'll ever come   
   >    across is async.   
      
   Synchronous was more common in the mainframe environments of old.   
   It can be a real pain to set up, especially if you're trying to   
   get hardware from different manufacturers to talk to each other.   
   Synchronous protocols are better suited to sending files across   
   the country than characters across the room.  The handshaking   
   overhead can easily eat up the speed advantage of losing async's   
   start and stop bits.   
      
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