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> No way  Alex! Don't leave. You're in learning mode. More below..
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Nah, I'm not going anywhere.  This is too much fun.

> >
> >1.  I use a compiler, because I think coding in assembler is=20
> silly (for=20
> >what I need to do, and 99% of what other people need to do)
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> That's OK. Who cares? _I_ don't. But I personally don't use=20
> higher-level languages myself, for what I do, ASM is required.
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I hear that a lot, but I am always skeptical.  Since you can use C and
mix in assembler for time-critical parts, I don't know why anyone would
mess with complete assembler.  The code is much more readable and
manageable.

What app are you doing that *has* to have assembler.

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> >4.  I built a project with an external crystal for a=20
> real-time clock,=20
> >and I didn't use external capacitors
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> Use ceramic resonators, they have caps built-in.
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This was to drive timer1 to allow the PIC to have a real-time clock, it
wasn't the PIC oscillator because I used the internal one for that.  As
far as I know, there aren't any 32.768K ceramic resonators, and if there
were they wouldn't be as precise as crystal.

> >5.  I don't use decoupling capacitors on my breadboard experiments
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> Now, you're a lucky guy. Would you be available for a trip to=20
> LasVegas with me?
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I have never seen it make any difference.  I have heard that breadboards
have internal capacitance that takes care of it.  I always have too many
wires on a breadboard, and the caps just get in the way.

I do use them on production boards.  I'm not that much of a gambler.

> >6.  I don't know resistor color codes by heart.  I have a=20
> gadget from=20
> >Radio Shack that tells them to me
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> I'm colorblind. I have to ask my wife what the colors are.=20
> SHE uses the gadget from Radio Shack.
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You have a forgiving wife.  I think mine would be quite annoyed if I had
to ask her all the time.

You could use a ohm-meter and do the process of elimination.  :-)

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> Nope, you're a lifer here. Join the rest of us. Ignore the jibes.
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> --Bob
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I've been on the internet since the days when we just had 1's, so I'm
fine.

Alex

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