possibly interesting

Parallax the creators of the basic stamp now do a multiprocessor chip
with 8 X 32bit processors running at 80Mhz. The nice thing is that
lots of functionality comes as standard in the form of objects for the
programming language called spin, these include video functions as
well as functions necessary for input devices such as mice and keyboards.

I'm just wondering if something like this might be combined with a
g-100 to make compact and rather simple machine controllers. I'm
definately considering it for my EDM machine as human-user interfacing
was always going to be a pain.

Have a look, its really interesting in any case:

http://www.parallax.com/propeller/

Graham