Re: A89: a89: Drugwars

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Subject: Re: A89: a89: Drugwars
From: David Phillips <electrum@tfs.net>
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1998 15:01:07 -0500
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All the functions?  Two hours?!  I find that really hard to believe.  It is
really much slower in almost everything.  For example, try scrolling
through the list of conversions and see how long it takes to get to (and
find) the one you want.  On the 86, it's just a couple of keystrokes a way.
 Just tap more a few times, instead of waiting it to scroll through them
all.  The speed of the calculations is faster than the 85/86, but menus and
all that other kind of stuff isn't.

At 02:39 AM 9/26/98 EDT, you wrote:
>
>> Btw, the 89 seems to run much slower than the 82/83/85/86 in most
>> operations, except for when drawing graphs.  The rom being written in C and
>> due to everything being done symbolically slows everything down.  Also, the
>> 89 is much harder to use than the other calcs, IMHO.
>
>I haven't seen that at all.  The 89 is significantly faster or at least equal
>at just about everything.  And I found the 86 to be more complex than
>the 89.  I was able to explore all of the 89's functions in about two hours.
>I haven't been able to do that to the 86 in a year.  Just look at the
>keyboards.
>

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