[eugenebrooks]

There is a small vocal crowd that would like linux as a platform
do develop their RC program, and other things, but running an
OS on the robot controller itself is a bad idea.

Having at least a 16 bit processor for the RC, with a clean
implementation for the I-O, and most importantly, interrupts,
would be great. One does not really need an OS running
on the RC to get these things.

The 8 bit addressing, the interrupt functionality that has suffered
from gremlins since the 8722 was introduced and the arcane
violations of the ANSI C standard to obtain more efficient
execution on an 8 bit processor would most certainly be things to
leave behind.

Eugene