Re: A86: calculation error

To: assembly-86@lists.ticalc.org
Subject: Re: A86: calculation error
From: ComAsYuAre@aol.com
Date: Sat, 31 Oct 1998 16:47:24 EST
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In a message dated 10/31/98 1:27:46 AM Eastern Standard Time, electrum@tfs.net
writes:

> Speaking of symbolic, I remember that you were working on symbolic
>  manipulation for the 86.  I would am very interested in this and would like
>  to know how far you got, if at all.  A symbolic add-on for the calculator
>  certainly seems possible, especially with all the OS hooks that TI left in.
>  It even seems reasonable that it could be done transparently from the OS,
>  not even a separate program, but this might be way too much work.

well, if such a project ever got somewhere, i think (as far as i know) the
easiest way to integrate that into the os would be using [sqrt]parse, which
handles all calculations from the home screen.  still, writing a symbolic
manipulator would be damn hard.