Re: HP's and TI's calculator output rate


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Re: HP's and TI's calculator output rate



Raymond Hellstern wrote:
>
> Hi Stefan,
>
> On the other hand, the HP48 (and the HP38G) were well designed to
> last many years. Remember, the HP48 was planned in the late 80's.
> Compare to the HP41 which was in production for about ten years.
>
> The machines are still easy to use, have enough memory.
> The user interface could be a bit faster, but there are some solutions
> for this problem (JAVA, SpeedBrowser, FORM-Engine etc).
>
> As I stated some time ago, 'research' is important, but if that research
> produces new calcs every year, you could think that the design may
> not be very good. If it were, the machines would last longer than
> one or two years.
>
> ...
> Raymond Hellstern -Magic48ges- Email: 101.165571@germany.net

Not to start a war, but HP calcs suck bigtime.  I used to have a TI85,
TI92,
and HP48GX..  I still have the TIs, but I got rid of the HP because it
sucked
so bad..  The RPN was okay, in fact it was pretty handy for evaluating
expressions, but other than that the calc was a piece of junk..  It was
slower than hell (IMHO because of the BS object-oriented design
philosophy),
and was much less convenient than the TI85.  For example, common tasks
such as
unit conversion or polynomial factoring were MUCH slower and more
difficult
than on the 85...  Granted, the 92 also lags behind the 85 in these
areas, but
it has redeeming qualities such as WYSIWYG display and symbolic calc.
The 48
has no cool features like this.  (Well, I guess the built-in equations
with
graphic diagrams were pretty damn cool, but didn't get used all that
much)..
As an engineer, I would definitely say that the 85 is by far the best
calc
for day-to-day operations.  It's simple, fast, and has the functionality
that
is necessary.

Richard

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