ugh! who would have thought serial port programming would be such a PITA??

[beer]

You would think that because the sh!ts been around for 20 something years, it wouldn't be that hard to interface with.
Ugh. This lab is a pain in the ass. Why the fvck does it take like 30 instructions to turn on a goddamn serial port and set all the appropriate registers?

This is on a motorola, not an intel, btw.

/rant

 

[RaynorWolfcastle]

Most high-level programming languages have packages to abstract all that away from you (eg Java, VB).... but judging by your post the point of the excercise is to get into the nitty gritty

 

[beer]

Originally posted by: RaynorWolfcastle
Most high-level programming languages have packages to abstract all that away from you (eg Java, VB).... but judging by your post the point of the excercise is to get into the nitty gritty

Yeah, wouldn't that be nice?

I'd like to see Java run at 16 MHz....in real time