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Originally posted by Dave Flowerday
Here, take a look at this. It shows the inside of the OI and RC, and you can clearly see in the pictures that there is only 1 Stamp between the two of them (in the RC). The rest of the work is done by PICs.

I think this is what's throwing you off course. They do talk about having multiple microcontrollers in the system, however they never indicate that they're all Stamps. In fact, as I mentioned before, the only Stamp is the user-controlled one. Everything else is done with Microchip PICs (hence the reason they upgraded the user CPU to a PIC - they're already familiar with it).
First of all, I'd like to thank you for those pictures. I can't tell whether you're responsible for them, or not, so I'll thank you, and whoever took them, and whoever hosts them. I don't think I've ever seen them before, and even though they're deprecated, at this point, they're still very interesting.

Second, I just thought it was slightly humorous that InnovationFirst would choose to take the base components of a Basic Stamp, and license the programming software (the Basic Stamp IDE/Tokenizer/programmer) from Parallax. This would indicate that PBASIC was, at the time, considered better than any alternative languages (although there're other factors in such a decision). The Basic Stamp 2SX consists of maybe $15-20 worth of electrical components, so when you buy a Stamp, you're mostly paying for the right to use PBASIC.
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