Re: A83: Help!
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Re: A83: Help!
David Phillips wrote:
>Heh, the 89's text editor is worthless. The screen is so much a
narrower
>than the 92's that stuff barely fits. And what's with no word-wrap? If
it
>had word-wrap, it might be useful for jotting notes and stuff. But
without?
>Every other line at least you have a word that gets chopped off. It's
>absolutely terrible.
>And, no, this is not a flame against you. If you love the 89 and it's
>text editor, great. I just don't see how TI could have made such an
awsome
>TI-86 calc then completely botched the TI-89. Take the 86, add symbolic
>manipulation and pretty print, add some ram, put it in the new case with
the
>high res display, and you'd have the perfect calc...
The TI-89 is more like a palm PC
and less like a graphing calc, that's
what makes it so much cooler.With
Shells like Doors OS and PlusShell, I
think it is very much like a mini PC. Add
a built-in speaker and some kind of
modem (ha!) and that would be the
perfect calc (or should I say mini-PC)
-Steve AKA Fuzmeister