>The serial chip does not do that. It will send the interrupt at the >time it has assembled a full character.
Some of the serial chips have large FIFOs and wait until the FIFO has several characters and/or there is no activity for a while. The idea is to save CPU cycles by batching interrupts. -- These are my opinions, not necessarily my employer's. I hate spam. _______________________________________________ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions
