>>
>>Anyway, I try to avoid things that require "sit and spin" delays in the
>>millisecond range.
>
>What do you do about EEPROMs?

On the AVR, I have a busy bit that works, and an int to tell me when it's ready for another. Otherwise, I try to avoid them.

>I find that good design can avoid problems
>with such delays, you just have to use buffers and interrupts and flags
>to good advantage. And interrupt-driven timeouts in some cases.

Yep.


"Try to avoid" dosen't mean "Never use".

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