So what's with the state of "basic stamp clones", anyway?  there have
been perhaps half-a-dozen such projects i've seen on the net, none ever
getting so far as to produce source code, and most limiting themselves
to the 64 bytes of eeprom in a 16F84.  Most have faded quiety into the
woodwork.

Fitting the original basic stamp in a 16c54 was quite a feat of
programming,
and parallax ought to be proud.  Fitting similar acting code in
something
like a 16f648 ought to be a piece of cake (8 times the program memory,
more
ram, a "full" 256 bytes of eeprom, and a nicer architecture.)

1) is parallax being hardnosed against such clones?  It's probably
within
    their rights, but usually such behavior gets publicized...
2) Do the different timings of internal eeprom and faster clocks and
such
    just make it unusable from an application compatibility point of
view?
    After all, basic is infamous for for/next 'timing loops."
3) or is it just that the availability of compilers and easier
programming
    of (flash based) modern PICs make the whole thing pointless?  Anyone
who
    is willing to deal with chips rather than a pre-made board can write
    faster and more functional code in about the same time...

BillW

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