Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: I need a serial data decoder that....
Message-ID: <1988Mar23.205102.1941@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <2142@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 88 20:51:02 GMT

> Things work fine, but I have to program a value of 0x15 into the MC6850 each
> time I powerup my circuit.

What you want, I should think, is an old-style UART that brings all its
control functions out to pins, as opposed to the modern ones that are all
microcomputer-bus-oriented and have to be programmed.  I think you can
still get the old ones! :-)
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