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> No, the complexity usually isn't hidden. It's the driver's job to do that.

Why not, though? We used to have e.g. glass teletypes with microprocessors (8080/8051) in them that exposed a serial bus with very neat command protocol that we still use nowadays, that could boot up, init and self-test all on their own.





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