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From: Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com>
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Subject: Re: Watchdog timers (was: Re: Multi-Port Async Cards)
To: fenner@parc.xerox.com (Bill Fenner)
Date: Sat, 3 Feb 1996 12:35:21 -0600 (CST)
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> In message <199602021854.MAA11875@brasil.moneng.mei.com>you write:
> >> If you're going to decode the I/O's already, don't bother with the UART.
> >
> >Your intent is to emulate the UART?  I'm sorry, I'm not THAT good at digital
> >logic design  :-)  I wouldn't know where to start.
> 
> *Software*, Joe!  We're hackers, right?  Just decode the PC's I/O space in a 
> creative way to the microprocessor, and let the software on the uP handle the 
> rest =)

I'm hacker enough to know that I wouldn't have a clue about how to do it :-)

... JG