[was "Re: [PIC] 2 questions about 18f4550"]

Olin Lathrop wrote:

> I was objecting to your implicit and sometimes overt characterization
> that people refusing to switch to standards now were being stupid.  

As long as you keep repeating this without ever providing a single quote
where I called anybody stupid I simply have to reply with an objection. I
never called anybody 'stupid' (or 'inept' or whatever you have come up with
along these lines). I also didn't "characterize" anybody as such, not overt
and not implicit. You seemingly felt offended, but you didn't care enough
to actually look what exactly offended you -- and whether you may have
misunderstood something. 


> I tried to explain how we got here and that these descision were largely
> reasonable, not that the outcome is necessarily desirable or that
> standards are bad.

You ran into open doors with that. I never disagreed on this, nor said
anything to the contrary. I may have doubted the wisdom of some of the
decisions (even though they may have been reasonable), but I think history
shows that some of them were wrong. But that's a really minor point, and
especially not one that can be argued; it only can be provided as food for
thought. (Maybe learning from the past helps avoiding similar chains of
events in the future.) 

Gerhard

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