Re: Hi
- From: Tim Streater <tim.streater@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 17:17:12 +0100
In article <ekddd3db1qu34ved2pj6dq06dgsvcmpn6h@xxxxxxx>,
T i m <news@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
[snip]
Quite right, well said. However, none of that detracts from the fact
that from a personal support pov, a PC is bother easier and cheaper to
fix (and back to my point) and for me and millions of others, fun to
build / upgrade.
Where's the interest in getting standard components and fixing them
together?
I had much more fun at my last job where, on a couple of occasions, we
needed small single board systems with a couple of I/O ports. Because
the hardware engineer hadn't checked the board layout, when we got the
boards back (about 10 units) they all had errors, didn't they, and as
software engineer I had to sort it. So I scored a logic state analyser,
attached the socking great clip to the Z80 CPU, and fixed the timing and
the memory circuits. Once I fixed one with a few blue wires and cut
traces, I handed them back to the hardware guy, who got the rest fixed.
Then I wrote the firmware to drive them.
That was more like it. What you're talking about, you may as well work
for Toyota building their cars.
.
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