>
> I agree.  I think it's a lot better to use just the basic RS-232 features
on
> the host that will be available anywhere.

Basic RS-232 includes hardware handshaking. The FIFO issue can be avoided by
feeding the bytes one at a time after checking the hardware handshake flag.
This is faster than waiting for a character to come back from the target
since it uses just one asynchronous bit to toggle the data flow, but at the
cost of using one more wire.
/\/\/\/*=Martin

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