On Sun, May 22, 2005 at 03:33:23PM +0100, Dave Turner wrote:
> I really don't see why people pay for a basic stamp, when they can buy
> a pic for about 50 timer cheaper, and download basic.

Because there's no setup involved.

>  Also, basic
> stamps only store about 256 instructions, as opposed to a PIC -
> several thousand.  I mean, storing the program in a data EEPROM, now
> that's just dumn.

Agreed. The original BS had external serial EEPROM.

The biggest problem with the stamp is speed, followed closely by cost.

Personally I'm still partial to something like JAL loaded with a 
bootloader. It's a stamp style of development, but eliminates all of
the cost and speed issues.

BAJ
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