> Then you finish the job by burning your program directly into ROM and > install it on the logic board. Luxury. ROM is for sissies. Real men design a chip (by hand of course) to execute their program, and fab it in their basement. They build their own DC power supply, make some capacitors from tin foil and old clothing, and mine their own quartz for timing. Interfaces? A real programmer's chip doesn't need to interface with anything else - it does everything, all in it's 40-pin SIPP package...that a real man builds himself. Then he reads the paper in octal, eats some nails, and laughs at nancy-boys like Mark Browne making their cute little ROMs. Kids. (sincere apologies to women, Mark, and just about everyone else) This thread reminds me of the "Real Programmers" parody of "Real Men Don't Eat Quiche". Funny stuff. Adam (Who's "old man" did mainboard design for Unisys. Before they had employee workstations. Literally had to bang two rocks together to make 1's. Up hill, both ways.) _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list