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Link to Wikipedia page on Async Serial Comm
By linking to the Wikipedia page, clarify just which "serial communication protocol" is being referenced in the text.
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src/10-serial-communication/README.md

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replaced by the Universal Serial Bus (USB). We won't be dealing with the DE-9 connector itself but
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with the communication protocol that this cable is/was usually used for.
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So what's this *serial communication*? It's an *asynchronous* communication protocol where two
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So what's this [*serial communication*][ASC]? It's an *asynchronous* communication protocol where two
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devices exchange data *serially*, as in one bit at a time, using two data lines (plus a common
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ground). The protocol is asynchronous in the sense that neither of the shared lines carries a clock
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signal. Instead both parties must agree on how fast data will be sent along the wire *before* the
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- [*nix](nix-tooling.md)
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- [Windows](windows-tooling.md)
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[ASC]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asynchronous_serial_communication

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