A89: Re: Assembly-89 Digest V1 #727


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A89: Re: Assembly-89 Digest V1 #727




>Don't feel cheated! TI has one major thing that they did that can excuse a
>fairly bloated program: flashROM. Had we had to wait for them to optomize
the
>code, we would have had to wait until we graduated from High School before
>they released the TI89. By having a FlashROM and leaving more room for
>upgradability, and waiting for later to optomize (or perhaps even a rewrite
>in Assembly), we can get the calculator earlier. I don't feel cheated.


. . . or they could have conned us into buying new calcs early and never
meet the promise of upgrades =)