| ??? 09/20/04 23:40 Read: times |
#77756 - RE: Replacing school hardware Responding to: ???'s previous message |
James Hinnant wrote:
------------------------------- the school (and all schools in the same boat, by implication) should replace 30 +/- development boards because they use 8255s? * the common denominator is going to be the all-Intel solution. * the students will learn more on equipment that is harder to work with. Arnold S. didn't get there by lifting 5-lb. handweights. * the students might come across legacy designs with 8255s upon graduation. ...where they would recognise obsolescense, or embrace it ? ..what's he going to say if Lisa tells him "the 8052.com guys say the problem is our dusty old lab hardware, and your incompetence in continuing with it; we need to update our hardware?" "..Good grief, I didn't know you could do that now. I inherited the system from years back....." I would dearly love to know where this is. I had words with another academic institution mentioned in here awhile back, and got some real progress. Steve |
