Re: Which TI should I buy?
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Re: Which TI should I buy?
CerealBox <you@somehost.somedomain> wrote in article
<57qk8m$jkn@mtinsc01-mgt.ops.worldnet.att.net>...
> In article <19961130003300.TAA15249@ladder01.news.aol.com>,
> kitten344@aol.com says...
> What do you know?
>
> The 83 sucks. It still has those ugly full screen menus and far fewer
> capabilities (especially programming wise -- no ZShell). And it's not
> like the 85 is so hard to understand -- most TI calcs are pretty easy to
> pick up. If you want a calculator that's hard to understand, try an HP
> -- those things use RPN and have so many functions there's two shift
> keys.
The 83 doesn't need ZSHELL. It can run binary files directly. They are
also easier to write for the 83 since they're loaded at a fixed location in
memory and don't move. This eliminates using variable offsets and allows
direct references to data areas within the user program. The machine
language documentation for the 83 is quite extensive.
Tom Lake
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