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by throwketchup 4324 days ago
Except for the "reasonable rate" bit, which (IMHO) also includes "reasonable latency." Real UARTs can be used for, e.g., pulse-per-second inputs from GPS or atomic clocks to discipline an NTP server. That doesn't work for a USB->serial thingy (because the latency is literally three orders of magnitude worse).