24 Oct
2001
24 Oct
'01
12:50 p.m.
That's why it's been common practice to fire anyone who uses one-shots
(monostables) for anything. I personally believe it should go beyond that, in
that the perpetartor of such a heinous crim should be barred from asserting his
credentials as a circuit designer for a short period, of, say, 10 decades.
There is, I'm sure, a place for one-shots, but they've been abused so often
it's
hard to remember what that might have been.
Dick
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tony Duell" <ard(a)p850ug1.demon.co.uk>
To: <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2001 4:21 PM
Subject: Re: What people "should" know
<snip>
comments. But
people who have been taught C++ would recognise that this
is not the "done thing". To quote Gordon The Big Engine (sorry, too many
Oh right... I guess it's similar to the feeling I get when I see a board
of monostables to produce various pulses rather than 'doing it properly'
and using a state machine. It'll work [1], but it's not the 'right way to
do it'
[1] Well, OK, unlike bad style in software (which should either work all
the time or never), bad hardware style can work most of the time.
Monostables are notorious for drifting with time, temperature, etc, and
then your carefully-timed pulses go all over the place.
-tony