At 23:46 06/05/97 -0500, Troy Powledge wrote:
>1. What is the simplest bus to implement? By this I mean, what chips are out
>there to implement this bus and how difficult is the programming?

Probably the simplest (in terms of readily available chips) is RS485. You
just put a driver chip (like for RS232 -- the main difference is that you
have to control the direction, as it is half-duplex) at your serial ports,
and then you use just normal asynchronous communication. You have to invent
(or copy) a protocol that allows your master to address his slaves, send
some data to them and possibly get something back from them.

Gerhard