On Dec 9, 2008, at 3:48 PM, Olin Lathrop wrote:

>
>> Since Joe had obviously done his homework, and made an effort to
>> solve the problem before bringing it to the list, I think he deserves
>> a little praise and encouragement.
>
> I agree.  But that doesn't mean bad comments and forgetting about  
> banking
> should not be pointed out.
>

I apologize, but bad comments will probably be common for awhile.  :-)

My example:
movlw       0x00       ;load w with 0x00

might be entirely self explanatory to someone familiar with the  
instruction set.  Remember that I am just learning and assembly is  
rather cryptic to me still.  I do speak binary and hexadecimal,  
however, and I can carry a reasonable conversation in octal.  :-)

I haven't touched on banking in my studies yet.  The whole point of my  
example many messages back was to try and understand an alternative to  
the TRIS statement.  So many tutorials state that TRIS is obsolete,  
higher level chips do not support it at all, and Microchip may decide  
to drop its recognition at any time.  YET - all these tutorials  
continue to use it despite the warnings.  I was just trying to gain an  
understanding on an alternative.

Keep up the constructive criticism, Olin.  It makes me want to try  
harder.  :-)

Joe

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