[Bill Sloman]

On Mar 6, 3:56*pm, Chieftain of the Carpet Crawlers
wrote:
On Sun, 6 Mar 2011 02:15:27 -0800 (PST), Bill Sloman

wrote:
for use in legacy
designs,

* You're a goddamned idiot.

* If someone designs a new circuit, it is NOT "a legacy design" simply
because it uses an old established part.

If it uses the 555, the odds are heavily in favour of it being a
legacy design. Nowadays rhere are better ways of doing what the 555
can do.

* Your logic is as flawed as it gets. *There are still millions of 2n222
transistors used every day in new designs too. *In your
idiot-without-a-clue mindset, those too would be "legacy designs".

The 2N2222 a simpler part. The strength of the 555 was that it
combined a monostable with a relatively high current switch. These
turn out to be functions that don't really work well together. The
2N2222 is just a good saturating switch.

* You lose, again. *As usual.

You'd like to think so. It's a pity that you can't think straight. but
it does the advantage that it leads you to spectacularly comic
pratfalls. This is one of them.

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Bill Sloman,Nijmegen