They are surely more powerful that the Amstrad PC1512 that we used to play Defender of the Crown back in the high school computer club.
And MS-DOS had plenty of nice high level languages to choose from.
However even those 5ms might not be an issue, if the chip is doing single purpose tasks, like wake-up, do its thing, go to sleep, like opening a garage door, read a measurement and send it off, ...
They are surely more powerful that the Amstrad PC1512 that we used to play Defender of the Crown back in the high school computer club.
And MS-DOS had plenty of nice high level languages to choose from.
However even those 5ms might not be an issue, if the chip is doing single purpose tasks, like wake-up, do its thing, go to sleep, like opening a garage door, read a measurement and send it off, ...