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From: Chris Elmquist
Date: Tue, 08 Jan 1991 22:28
Date: Tue, 08 Jan 1991 22:28
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A long, long time ago... in a land far, far away... there existed these little CPUs.. made by National I believe. I built a little board based on one of them... and it worked fine. However, I was always frusterated that I couldn't figure out how to write code that could poll the serial port to see if a character was waiting. Far as I could tell... you could only do INPUT statements that would suspend execution until input terminated by <CR> was entered. Does anyone know how to do single character input with this CPU? Is there a way to PEEK some register to see if a character is waiting? I've got a little project that could use the limited intelligence of this CPU... if I could figure out the single character I/O. Any tips would be appreciated. Thanks! Chris
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!timbuk!cs.umn.edu!uc!nachos.SSESCO.com!SSESCO.com!elmquist From: elmquist@SSESCO.com (Chris Elmquist) Newsgroups: sci.electronics Subject: INS8073 "Tiny-BASIC CPU".. remember these? Message-ID: <300@nachos.SSESCO.com> Date: 8 Jan 91 22:28:26 GMT Sender: elmquist@nachos.SSESCO.com Distribution: na Organization: SSESCO Inc., Minneapolis, MN Lines: 17