Re: A89: TI89 ROM vs HP49 ROM
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Re: A89: TI89 ROM vs HP49 ROM
Or replace that little inhibitor circut in the back of the calc and boost
that *calc* up to 40Mhz. Then it'll be faster than the hp if it were written
in basic!
-----Original Message-----
From: Adam Davis <adavis@baladyne.com>
To: assembly-89@lists.ticalc.org <assembly-89@lists.ticalc.org>
Date: Wednesday, June 09, 1999 10:24 AM
Subject: Re: A89: TI89 ROM vs HP49 ROM
>
>HELLO PEOPLE!
>
>Ok, let's think here for a minute. The HP 49 is really the 48 with a
>little change in HW, but the entire system has been rewritten in
>assembly.
>
>Guess what the released version of the HP48 was written in??? Are you
>saying HP wasn't in a hurry? Whether TI releases a fully asm version is
>up to TI. The fact is that we won't have to buy new hardware to realize
>the change, while the HP users do.
>
>So, let's stop dissing TI simply because other people now have a
>calculator which goes a bit faster. If you are truly dissatisfied with
>it, I'll buy all your ti-89's for $100 each and make a profit selling
>them to people who aren't so prideful about their calculator.
>
>-Adam
>
>MathWiz314@aol.com wrote:
>>
>> Has it occurred to anyone that TI wrote in c just because they needed a
new
>> product out quickly. TI is a big company hungry for profits and in order
to
>> make profits, they needed to get the 89 out quickly, even at the expense
of
>> quality. HP, who doesn't get many calculator sales anyway, can take the
time
>> to do a job properly because they don't have millions of students waiting
for
>> their next release. So TI really is stupid, its just in a hurry.
>
>
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