Re: A83: Help!


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Re: A83: Help!




David Phillips wrote:

>Heh, the 89's text editor is worthless.  The screen is so much a
narrower
>than the 92's that stuff barely fits.  And what's with no word-wrap?  If
it
>had word-wrap, it might be useful for jotting notes and stuff.  But
without?
>Every other line at least you have a word that gets chopped off.  It's
>absolutely terrible. 

>And, no, this is not a flame against you.  If you love the 89 and it's 
>text editor, great.  I just don't see how TI could have made such an
awsome 
>TI-86 calc then completely botched the TI-89.  Take the 86, add symbolic
>manipulation and pretty print, add some ram, put it in the new case with
the
>high res display, and you'd have the perfect calc... 


The TI-89 is more like a palm PC
and less like a graphing calc, that's
what makes it so much cooler.With
Shells like Doors OS and PlusShell, I
think it is very much like a mini PC. Add
a built-in speaker and some kind of
modem (ha!) and that would be the
perfect calc (or should I say mini-PC)

-Steve AKA Fuzmeister