22 Mar
2009
22 Mar
'09
8:16 p.m.
-------------Original Message:
Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2009 15:31:32 -0700
From: "Chuck Guzis" <cclist at sydex.com>
Subject: Re: Old Timers [was: CompuPro CPU-68000]
On 21 Mar 2009 at 15:50, Jim Battle 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.
Oh, I was trying to be humorous about it. I write Verilog too; it's
fun in its own way.
I could just have easily grumbled about ... laying out 14 AWG busbar on
mahogany breadboards between surface-mount (meaning that they're
attached with woodscrews) components.
Times change, and all too frequently, we don't. All we can do is
grumble.
--Chuck
--------------Reply:
Aw, some folks just don't get irony and subtle humour...
But you're right: I never thought about it but we've come full circle with
surface-mount techniques; I wonder if royalties are being paid...
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