Re: ti-86 vs. ti-89
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Re: ti-86 vs. ti-89
The HP48 processor may be faster but the shell is slower.
The archive is for storing vars in. They must be unarchived to do anything
to them (like locking).
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Indifference wrote in message <7eqvll$bvp$1@oak.prod.itd.earthlink.net>...
>Hmmmn. Well I checked out the stats on the 89 and the 48G, and I found that
>on the 89, a large part (344K) is called "User data archive" memory. I'm
>confused as wether that is available to the user to store programs,
>variables etc. or that is just "working memory for the calc". The document
>i'm referring to is here. Somebody explain it to me, because i'm confused
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>Indifference
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>http://www.ti.com/calc/docs/89.htm
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>>Both of which are a royal pain in the neck to use.
>>
>>>It also has about 30KB of formulas preprogrammed in.
>>Most of which, you'll never use.
>>>Besides, the
>>>HP 48-G processor is faster than the 89 processor
>>Wrong. The 48's are *slow*, I've never had a calc other than the 48's
>>that you have to wait for a menu to open. Further the numerical
>>solver on the 48's is way slower too.
>>Overall, a TI calc is faster to use.
>>Spend the extra dough, and get an 89, you won't be sorry.
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