Regarding production of Vampires it seems that they change production with the new models for A500 and A1200 with advantage of faster production and disadvantage of being more expensive. On the other hand if product has proven to be useful and satisfies the customers people will be willing to pay more for it if they get it faster. Will be interesting to see where it heads, f.e. is a version of pcx and fusion (as commercial products in special vampire/apollo versions) announced, they even extend the core for it. Another important step will be when FPU is officially added. In opposite to our "historian" I do not see speed as main problem because most people do not see it as a competition to their workhorses but as a pure hobby. The main problem will be software developers who will develop special software versions for it making use of the new features. Current compilers do not support it, some of them could of course because sources available but still you need someone to do it.
