On Fri, 22 Apr 2011, Tony Duell wrote:
Drop the
design into an FPGA and you go from several huge boards full of
TTL to one Eurocard, an FPGA, and a couple of RAM chips.
With nowhere to connect the 'scope and logic analyser to debug it, no
interesting signals to look at... Might as well jsut buy a modern PC.
/me surrounds Tony with a ring of "Keep off the lawn!" signs
Can you explain, please?
It's an amusing (well _I_ thought so) way of relating the
stereotypical "You kids! Get of my lawn!" attitude expressed when
something new/different/change is presented to someone "entrenched" in
their ways.
Your statement of " With nowhere to connect the 'scope and logic analyser
to debug it, no interesting signals to look at... Might as well jsut buy a
modern PC." immediately conjoured(sp!) up a picture in my head of an old
man waving his cane and yelling something about "those damn kids and their
new fangled gadgets". It made me laugh, so I boiled it down to something
that everyone (ok, with one exception apparently) could understand and
grin over.
Now normally, having to explain a joke ruins it, but in this case, I don't
think it applies.
Oh and "/me" is an action command that is in common use with IRC, so the
resulting line, had it been rendered within an IRC client, would have
looked like this:
geneb surrounds Tony with a ring of "Keep off the lawn!" signs
Enjoy!
g.
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