[Coco] It's a small win, but a win nonetheless

[Gene Heskett]

On Sunday 12 March 2017 13:37:28 William Astle wrote:

> On 2017-03-11 11:18 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > I'll take your word for it William, but I have a mental picture of a
> > sign inviting that law author guy Murphy being invited in for lunch
> > (yours). ;-)
>
> Mr. Murphy has a permanent residence here. :)
>
Oh, does he drink your beer too?  Here. it seems like I'm always out, or 
down to last bottle (I don't drink anything from an alu can, the 
connection to oldtimers being quite well established), and being 
diabetic, I rarely allow myself two.  You'd think he would bring his own 
real beer since as a diabetic, I drink a near beer, Miller 64.  Tastes 
something like beer anyway.

> Anyway, my assertion is based on the actual Color Basic ROM code. It
> sends exactly 8 bits per byte with no extras.
>
> The serial routine does send a start bit and a stop bit. And it seems
> to also send a stop bit before the start bit. In this case, the stop
> bit would likely be measurably longer than the start bit since an idle
> RS232 line is just one extended "stop" bit.


Cheers, Gene Heskett
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