Of course, parallax's involvement makes one immediately aware of how nice
something like a basic-stamp 2 would be with a 50MIPs core instead of the
current PIC...  Has there been discussion on the stamp list?

As processors get faster in general, applications DON'T get faster, they
just get more complex.  The number of cycles wasted doing GUI interfaces is
simply astounding, and a 4MHz Z80 with memory mapped text display and
WordStar is hard to match, speedwise, with a modern wysiwyg multifont
multwindow bitmapped display...

BillW