Tony Smith wrote: > Getting a 25% speed increase by doing something trivial as buying a > new PC sounds good to me, beats waiting for the next software release > (which is very unlikely to be that good). In the example I used to refute your original statement, I needed a few 100x for the speed increase to be really useful. But that was just one example. Do you really not see that there are problems out there for which no amount of affordable CPU power is enough, or is this just trolling? ******************************************************************** Embed Inc, Littleton Massachusetts, http://www.embedinc.com/products (978) 742-9014. Gold level PIC consultants since 2000. -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist