Re: A89: a89: Drugwars
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Re: A89: a89: Drugwars
If you don't know your 89, the menus help to find what you need quicker. If
you don't know your 86, then you're basically screwed. You have to search
for the right menu. (Or use the catalogue, but that's scrolling too!) On
the 89, you can hit the pagedown button and it's faster the going through
the 86's menus with the 'More' because it shows 7 items at a time with FULL
names rather then 5 abbreviations!
-----Original Message-----
From: David Phillips <electrum@tfs.net>
To: assembly-89@lists.ticalc.org <assembly-89@lists.ticalc.org>
Date: Saturday, September 26, 1998 4:07 PM
Subject: Re: A89: a89: Drugwars
>
>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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