resetting a filter

Not strictly accurate. ECL was alive and well back then - and 10k was cheap and relatively easy to use - and CMOS was a viable option in a lot of situations, though it would have needed help to drive coaxial cable.

-- Bill Sloman, Nijmegen

Bloody hell. What a gloriously ignorant arrogant s*****ad you are being Larkin. The subdiscussion involves the contents of an IC, where JT = excels and you don't. Perhaps you are the senile maroon on this one.

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Maybe for ignoratia and wrong.

So you like engineering by ignorant sparkies?

Absolutely true, i have no control over your willful ignorance and narcissist arrogance.

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Really? Check the list of ICs he has designed listed on the website, and the patents which show his name.

Not that i like his political rants.

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You are an idiot.

You declaring things to be obvious. Now there is a joke. It is obvious that you are an utter loon.

You know nothing about my waking or my sleeping hours. More proof that you are a fool.

F*ck off and DIE, fool.

Yet you have to mouth off at all the others here who have circuit designs. You are worse than a self important lead guitarist. And making it worse is that you are not lead guitarist material.

You have the worst affect of any engineer I have ever known or had discourse with, since we refer to Usenet..

No such animal. I do not expect a loser like you to spout anything other than pure horseshit, however.

You fail at civility. You are one of the worst the group has ever had.

Nobody started calling you KuntRetardWitch until after you started calling people by your pathetic nicknames. You are one of the few here who really does need his ass kicked.

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Jim Thompson doesn't actually "excel" in integrated circuit design. His designs work and meet their specifications, but fall a long way short of the sort of the excellence that Bob Widlar delivered, and Barry Gilbert still delivers from time to time.

-- Bill Sloman, Nijmegen

No, but EMI Central Research and Cambridge Instruments didn't have many ignorant sparkies on hand, and did accommodate some rather smart people. At EMI I once got to talk to William S. Percival

who was impressive. Godfrey Houndsfield

was more famous, but less impressive, and C A G LeMay - who invented the feature of the EMI body scanner that made it practical - was a clever man but a total disaster as a development engineer, and I had to work hard to avoid having to get involved with his lunatic ultrasound image reconstruction project.

-- Bill Sloman, Nijmegen

You're an idiot, and your qualifications to make an assessment in this realm hover near nil.

What's "ignorant" about using a reasonable term to refer to a transistor configuration? That's what they called it at TI.

If only one terminology is correct, is "Sziklai pair" or "complementary Darlington" also ignorant?

Does every part and circuit only have one allowable term? How boring.

Designed anything interesting lately?

He won't say much about himself, not even his name.

So it sounds like he learned electronics as a Navy tech. The military, and some of the trade schools like Heald, used electron flow convention. That confused a lot of people who never recovered from it.

I've tended to be wary of hiring ex-military techs, because they tend to be too rule driven to work in a design environment. But we do have a new embedded system programmer, ex-Navy, who is very good. I need to teach him to have less respect and more ideas, but I think that will happen.

It's a discussion group. People put up circuits so other people can see them and respond.

You never post circuits, and your only response is to curse and call people stupid.

Larkin's standard snotty comeback... basically saying, I'm better than you, go away.

As for "pseudo Darlington", TI did call it that, though I'd hardly call that definitive... the structure has been in use for at least 50 years (by me, likely used before my time) and NOT called "pseudo Darlington".

In fact "pseudo Darlington" is patented as another configuration. ...Jim Thompson

TI doesn't signify. What do they call it at Linear Technology or Analog Devices?

"Sziklai pair" is a trifle pretentious. People like me and Winfield Hill know what it means, but a lot of perfectly respectable electronic engineers don't.

"Complementary Darlington" is pretty much self-explanatory, while "pseudo-Darlington" isn't.

Particularly "boring" if you don't happen to know it.

-- Bill Sloman, Nijmegen

It does involve "the contents of an IC" but not the way he suggests.

How does the closed-loop gain/phase behavior of an 800 KHz opamp affect a 100 MHz oscillation? JT is strangely silent on that, so maybe you can explain it.

JT is probably good at what he does, but he gets helpless as soon as he gets off-chip, or has to deal with physics or electromagnetics.

You're a village idiot. I said nothing about your wife... just BU "performers".

Though your continually bringing up a word I didn't use may ultimately cause people to question its applicability.

She attended MIT as a special student. Didn't graduate, only took a few courses in math (but has a certificate applauding her accomplishments). We were married, needed money, so she went to work for Doc Edgerton. In math she can probably run circles around everyone here... she has "the knack" ;-)*

• In High School I hung out with another nerd/geek/wonk named Dave Wright. When he was having difficulties with an Algebra problem I advised him to ask Naomi how to do it. Pissed him off so bad he never spoke to me again. Same kind of personality as Larkin, pompous narcissistic asshole.

Dave went on to fail out of Georgia Tech. I understand he's a software "engineer" now :-)

You said that ALL BU girls paraded naked, showing their stuff. You accused me of "pimping" her. And lately you suggested that she was unfaithful to me.

That all aligns pretty well with the theory that you are a slimy asshole. A gutless slimy asshole.