[A83] Re: lcd driver


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[A83] Re: lcd driver




At 07:03 PM 12/6/01 -0700, you wrote:

>Besides the size, do you really think it's that much cheaper?  I seem to
>remember the 86 being around $120, and the 83 being $80 (when they first
>came out), but there's got to be a lot more to it than the LCD.  I wouldn't
>think the difference in price would be more than about $0.50 per unit.  Now,
>I do realize that every penny you save on hardware amounts to a lot when you
>are selling hundreds of thousands or millions of units, but I don't see it
>being directly proportional to the increased price of the calc.

86's also have all sorts of friendly features, like vectors, conversion, 
etc.  The cost of developing the parsing ROM was much more than developing 
the token using ROM for the 83 (86's respond to typed commands, rather than 
tokens like on the 83.)






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