| ??? 08/05/10 21:39 Read: times Msg Score: +1 +1 Good Answer/Helpful |
#177740 - You're the one reading-in requirements! Responding to: ???'s previous message |
Richard Erlacher said:
The thing do do would have been to provide the names of a few 805x cross-assemblers and maybe a link or two, and let him choose. If that's all he wanted, he could've googled it himself! didn't require trying to read a bunch of potential requirements into his question. You're the one reading-in requirements! You are assuming that the question is a well-informed, carefully considered query; You are assuming that he has these chips and just wants to use them. Nobody else assumed this: it was all on the basis of, "if you're a beginner, then...". It's (at least) equally likely that he is a beginner and has just grabbed a few keywords from some ancient text. Or maybe he just saw some old devboard - like the one you mentioned - that uses these antique parts. Instead of asking ourselves, "Why would he want to do that?", wouldn't it be better to ask, "Have I answered his question?" No. It is very reasonable to consider whether or not he is asking the "right" question - as experience has shown that the first question as asked is often not the one that really needs to be answered! |
