>>I'd agree with your assesment of me entirely. In fact, I never wanted to be an application developer, rather wanted to be a systems programmer. I must admit I've never even tried playing around with the x86 processor in assembler. As close as I've gotten is goofing around in C and C++, and calling some of the ROM BIOS interrupts, but that's about it.
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>Heck, I'm still afraid going into the BIOS when the PC starts up sometimes to change the default boot drive. I think pushing and popping (that's C, right?) things at that level would cause unrecoverable errors to my nervous system; much on a grand scale can go wrong. That's too much like working with hardware, which has caused me many more hours of frustration than development. I'll stick to making apps look pretty and possibly functional. :-)
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>Good thing there are both our types in the world...
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Renoir,

LOL! I'll admit that working with hardware is my least favorite computer type project, but I'm not afraid of it either. I've added memory, new hard drives, popped new processors, sound cards, modems, etc., etc. I sure wouldn't want to do it for a living though.:-)