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Primary Examiner—Mark H. Rinehart
Attorney, Agent, or Firm—Emrich & Dithmar
[57] ABSTRACT
An intelligent converter is programmably adaptable for interlacing a data processing system to any one ol plural selectable serial devices, each uniquely responsive to a serial data bit stream ol a device-specific data communication format. The data processing system is adapted for communication with externally coupled resources in accordance with a predefined network communication protocol ol the type including user-programmable network lunction layers and non-programmable network lunction layers to coordinate and ensure the integrity ol transler ol data therebetween.
17 Claims, 3 Drawing Sheets
