You could implement a virtual LCD if you required the application to pay
attention to the LCD busy bit....

1: The strobe sets an SR FF to indicate busy.

2: The monitor clocks a zero into the FF after it fetches the LCD data from
the pins.

Bob Ammerman
RAm Systems

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