At 02:28 AM 7/4/01 -0400, Spehro Pefhany wrote:
>At 10:52 PM 7/3/01 -0700, you wrote:
> >After all this talk to date on extending bulb life, etc., one simply has to
> >ask:
> >
> >        "How many PIC'engineers does it take to change a light bulb?"
>
>I get 74:
>
>4 to argue that the light doesn't need to be changed
>17 to investigate alternative LED and CF technologies
>2 to complain about existing CF lamps
>4 to go buy diodes and resistors to put in series
>7 to make provocative political statements
>3 to write PIC assembler code to ramp the light up
>1 to write another version in C
>2 to design the hardware and actually change the lamp
>34 to try to reduce the assembler code by one instruction as a 'challenge'

One more to recode it for the AVR, in half the space :)

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