Hi,

You said, that you want to practice delay loops without the use of timers, "in order to improve the programming skills......"

I don't think so.

How many things you will practice in the whole pramming domain. There are hundreds of methods which are alternatives and duplicate to eachother. Every method has its own utility suiting the particular requirement.

Using loops instead of interrupts for the sake of improving programming skills is a "Useless" idea.

Would you then be using some "method" to fetch data instead of using "MOVC A,@A+PC" next.... to improve your programming a step further.

All methods are part of the "entire" programming techniques. Concentrate on "developing" something real which will give you a real boost, instead of getting under false impression of improving programing the way you have mentioned in your post.

Good Luck

Babar