24 Jun
2004
24 Jun
'04
1:50 a.m.
On 24 Jun 2004, at 07:51, Tony Duell wrote:
Of course there are things you remember -- the pinout
of the 74x00,
74x74, etc is burned into my brain. Not because I sat down and learnt
said pinouts, but because I've used those chips so often that I
remember
them, But I couldn't give you the pinout of some of the more obscure
TTL
chips, or of most microprocessors, or... I look those up. I don't think
this makes me any less of a designer either.
Acknowledging that you don't pretend to know everything means that you
are
more than just a pretend engineer (I was going to use the word wanker
but
this is a family mailing list :-). Tony please don't take this as
something
personal, it's just I'm fed up with (generally younger IT people
telling me
how to suck eggs...).
Huw Davies | e-mail: Huw.Davies(a)kerberos.davies.net.au
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