[esaym]

You'd be surprised at how much "good" software can accomplish. Just think of an 80mhz embedded cpu. You have 80,000,000 calculations per second right there in your hand.

In a side project I was involved in. We were using 60mhz chips to modulate data at 1khz. I kept worrying about running out of cpu cycles, I mean after all, I was doing a few thousand things per second. But in reality, I still had a ton of head room to go :)