In SX Microcontrollers, SX/B Compiler and SX-Key Tool, JonnyMac wrote:

Your evaluation is apples and oranges, Henry.  The BS2 module is a single-board-computer, complete with power supply, power management (brown-out protection), program memory (EEPROM) and an application (PBASIC runtime engine) -- the SX chip is just that, a raw piece of silicon, you get to add in all the rest.  Of course, experienced technicians and engineers will have no trouble with a raw chip like the SX, but that's not the case all around.  Parallax started an entire marketplace with the BASIC Stamp module that still thrives today, and the proof is in the number of wannabe competitors.

The SX and SX/B shows Parallax's commitment to the advanced hobbyist and professional.  That said, they've always made their OEM components available at reasonable cost fro production; I know because I used them into a product I designed about eight years ago.

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