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From: Huw Davies <huw.davies_at_kerberos.davies.net.au>
Date: Thu Jun 24 08:50:37 2004

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_at_kerberos.davies.net.au
Melbourne | "If soccer was meant to be played in the
Australia | air, the sky would be painted green"
Received on Thu Jun 24 2004 - 08:50:37 BST