A query about serial data transmission I was studying computer science and I learnt that Serial Data transmission is when one bit is transmitted at a time over one wire/channel. Then what does '8 bit serial' data transmission mean?
I was studying about MIDI where it said it uses 8 bit serial data transmission and is asynchronous.

Also, I cannot seem to find an appropriate tag to set to this question.
It was probably a rather unfortunate abbreviation of 8-N-1 serial transmission which is what MIDI uses. The 8 bits are sent serially, one at time, still.