Re: A86: Asm Questions that have been building up :)
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Re: A86: Asm Questions that have been building up :)
Also, TI has to pay the cost of designing and putting the calcs into test
phase and all that junk. also, the calc is extremely complex, all the
circuitry in the calc takes a lot of delicate machinery to do.
At 01:01 AM 3/20/98 , you wrote:
--- ---
--- --->If the Z80 is so cheap (a few bucks right?) why is the
calculator so
--- --->expensive? Is it because of the LCD mainly? How come an LCD is
so expensive
--- --->to make, and it is possibly to buy the same or a similar LCD
that they use
--- --->in the TI-8x calcs.
--- ---
--- ---I can field this one. the Z80 chip costs approximately 25
cents to make.
--- ---figure TI pays max 75 cents for them, in bulk. the LCD isn't
even that
--- ---expensive, i dont know exactly though. But, boys and girls,
can you say
--- ---the word, "profit"? I knew you could. We live in a free
market economy,
--- ---and TI wants their fair share of the buck. Aside from that, I
imagine that
--- ---given the primitive and complicated nature of assembler for the
Z80,
--- ---programming the ROMS for the various calcs that have them must
have been a
--- ---difficult, expensive task. and the $120 price tag on each 86
pays for a
--- ---little bit fo that.
--- ---
--- ---Robby Gutmann
--- ---gutmann@planet-connect.com
--- ---ICQ UIN: 724927 Agonostis on IRC
--- ---
--- ---"Let's just say that if complete and utter chaos was lightning,
--- ---he'd be the sort to stand on a hilltop in a thunderstorm wearing
--- ---wet copper armour and shouting 'All gods are bastards'."
--- --- -- Rincewind discussing Twoflower
--- --- (Terry Pratchett, The Colour of Magic)
--- ---
Alex
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