[A83] Re: NimbusOS [OT]
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[A83] Re: NimbusOS [OT]
That was an interesting conversation.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Henk Poley" <hpoley@dds.nl>
To: <assembly-83@lists.ticalc.org>
Sent: Monday, August 05, 2002 8:15 AM
Subject: [A83] Re: NimbusOS [OT]
>
> Been away for two and a half weeks, so sorry for the 'old post'.
>
> > Van: David Phillips <david@acz.org>
> >
> > I don't see why it is so difficult to call the calculators by their
> > proper names.
>
> Uhm, almost all Ti83+ newbies on this list think that everything made for
> the Ti83 runs also on the Ti83+ (so they post their question with "Ti83",
> or just no name). And off coarse -in general- it does, when reassembled
> with the correct includefiles/header. So when someone posts some routine
on
> this list it is meant to run on both (or better all three) of the Ti83s.
> Thats why this is a "shared list" between the Ti83, Ti83+ and Ti83+
> SE.
>
> So to stop being mistaken by the particular 'calculator species' we add
the
> minus sign, to make sure we all get the messages that it is not made to
run
> on the Ti83+ nor Ti83+ SE.
>
> This is more convenient than adding sentences like "This code is for the
> Ti83 only (so not the Ti83+(SE)", I guess...
>
> And last, why bother? Everybody seems to understand this better than the
> 'official' notation. And off coarse, you are free to chose to "use it" or
> not.
>
> At least this thread seems to have revived the list ;-)
>
> Henk Poley <><
>
> PS: Sorry Aaron...
>
>
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