Old Timers [was: CompuPro CPU-68000]

Chuck Guzis wrote: ... Chuck, that was spoken like a true old-timer, but your derision is laughable. "Hey, you damn verilog coders, get off my lawn!" I'm surprised, as you saw the transition from tubes to transistors to ICs, so it shouldn't shock you that the next evolution of integration requires just as much engineering and intelligence, although the problems to be solved are somewhat different. And believe me, even with hardware jobs consisting of "spewing" verilog code, there is quite a difference in the work of a hardware job and a software job. Some can do either job well, but not many. No doubt there are challenging designs that are done at board level (e.g., DRAM interfaces with a 300ps data cycle time), but most of it is simply connecting together the chips in a prescribed way, kind of like doing a connect the dots drawing. The action these days is inside the chip.