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Originally posted by FotoPlasma
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.
I think that the main reason for choosing the Stamp line of processors at the time the initial IFI system was developed was mainly that a Stamp 2 was in the old control system that we used prior to IFI...

On a somewhat different topic, has anyone thought there may be more than just cost driving IFI to not have the Edu RC interface with the OI and Full Size Radios? It's been discussed here before that IFI has tested a new, smaller, radio system for use in years past(I know they were actually having some people try it in 2002 at Epcot), as well as possibility of an updated OI(remember the discussion about the OI with PlayStation controller ports?)...We'll just have to wait until January to know for sure...as an interesting aside to this, note that on IFI's documentation page(http://www.innovationfirst.com/first...umentation.htm), the only active link for the OI is the Installation Info, which is basically just a CAD drawing showing you where the mounting holes are...
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