> Please delete me as well.

Please see the FAQ for unsubscribe instructions :-)

> Some of us are professionals.

No religion MAY be too (notwithstanding his email name).

> If you read the original question carefully, you'll see that this
> guy calls many of us idiots, although in a more covered form:
> We use MPLAB which is useless, he is going to make a much
> better tool, while we apes struggle with MPLAB, etc.

I can't imagine that you would seriously read that into such a post in other
circumstances.

> At the same time he asks for help at a level that reveals that he does
> not know much at all about microprocessors.

He may surprise us.
He has,
- apparently built a PIC 18fxxx system and programmed a PIC therein.
- correctly deduced the basic structure of PIC machine code (not many here
even bother) and
- written a largely correct small program
- understood enough to insert NOPs to allow extra instructions to be
inserted.
- understood the far from trivial configuration words
I think he's probably not a total beginner - just a very uniformed expert
waiting to be encouraged and guided :-)

> So I think Olin's
> reaction (and comments) are both fair and appropriate.

Disagree on both points.
But I'd still like to see him as a list member.



        Russell McMahon

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