I awoke this morning looking out my window onto eight new inches of wind packed snow. Plenty of time to think.

What scalerobotics said makes sense to me. In 1957 I was programming the AN/FSQ-7 SAGE Air Defense computer. We worked in machine language. It took us years to develop and distribute a symbol and subroutine library sufficient to allow us to focus on the radar data reading, intercept calculating algorithms needed to accomplish air defense. Building this subroutine library was a big task. The architecture of the machine did not change.

This morning I said to myself, "Back to basics." It may have been a mistake for me to purchase PICbasic PRO. Without being able to tap into the developments of others on the 16F88x structure, I may be better off in ASM. That way I will be forced back to basics.

This world of microprocessors reopens the academic importance of old fashioned "computer science". I was afraid that we had become too product oriented to care what is a "register".

I have two PIC books:
PIC PROJECTS by Parchizadeh and Vuksanovic
and
RUNNING SMALL MOTORS WITH PIC MICROCONTROLLERS by Sandhu

Seems like I should cease dreaming of getting a prototype to blink in sync with a PWM input signal and get back to the books. I've got plenty of time. Did I mention that we are snowed in without an all wheel drive car?

Ken