Re: A89: TI89 ROM vs HP49 ROM

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Subject: Re: A89: TI89 ROM vs HP49 ROM
From: "SirKnight" <sirknight@mindless.com>
Date: Wed, 9 Jun 1999 16:25:56 -0700
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>fullest, not provide us with the same quality effort that HP did.  Don't
get
>me wrong, I love my 89, but I feel that some how...we've been cheated.
>Cheated of what could have been.  Just think of optimized OS for the

I understand what you are saying.  Now we can no longer say that our
calculator is the fastest.  But still, I've seen some HP's (and Casio's) and
they are no good.  What I've always said is that Casio makes the best
scientific calculators, and TI makes the best graphing.  What is HP good at?
Well, scanners, printers (and from what it looks like recently, even
computers).  If TI made most of it in C then I want them to release their
compiler now.  They don't need to release their source code, they just have
to include some standard libs for the calc and some example source code.
What I do feel cheated about is that there is no built-in assembler.  The
TI-83 Plus (the new one where the number buttons are white) has a built in
assembler.  The HP has a built in assembler.  I want one in my calc also.  I
shouldn't have to worry about having it as long as I don't accidently do the
trick to open access to my flash.

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Re: A89: TI89 ROM vs HP49 ROM

From: Zoltan Kocsi <zoltan@bendor.com.au>