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The following figure is a flow chart for the programmer communications portion of the sweep.

Figure 2-2. Programmer Communications Window Flow Chart

System Communications Window (Models 331 and Higher)

This is the part of the sweep where communications requests from intelligent option modules,

such as the PCM, ar e processed (see flow chart). Requests a re serviced on a first-come-fir st-served

basis. However, since intelligent option modules are polled in a round-robin fashion, no intelligent

option module has priority over any other intelligent option module.

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