Hi, Al:
I have used parity a lot in the GP32s, and as Peg hypothesized, the parity bit does not show up in T8. If you want to see it, you need a scope
Geezer wrote:
. . . but then one has to wonder why the T8 bit even exists. One possibility is in support of a no-parity-9-bit protocol, but who would do that to themselves? :smileyhappy:
Yep, it's there to support the old Intel "ninth address-bit ugly" protocol. You can put the receiver to sleep, and it will only wake up when the received ninth is a one, indicating an address byte.
Who would do that to themselves? marketing.