Re: HP's and TI's calculator output rate
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Re: HP's and TI's calculator output rate
One fact often overlooked when this argument comes up is that not *EVERY* user
of HP
or TI calcs knows about the newsgroups or the program archives. Or if they do
know of
the available programs then they might not have an appropriate link cable to
input the
machine language programs. Therefore, "out-of-the-box" performance is all they
know
to form their comparisions.
Just a thought from a different perspective.
Rick Homard
rcriasm@dwx.com
Aaron Wallace wrote:
> I would have to agree about the GUI being slow, but veteran users know
short-cuts
> and find ways to circumvent the GUI. The GUI serves virtually no purpose
other
> than making some of the functions that require more arguments more user
friendly.
> All of these functions are, in some way, accessible directly from the stack.
And
> if it can't be done easily, then someone will re-write it in assembly and the
> problem is solved. Your complaint is invalid because you have not bothered
to
> look for a better solution; you simply accepted it as is.
> <clipped stuff>
> There is plenty of nice freeware for the HP48. I will agree that
"out-of-box" the
> HP48 does lack in many symbolic areas, but for anyone who bothers to look,
there
> is freeware available that will blow away any TI8x and is very comparable to
the
> 92 in symbolic manipulation. If there was anything that I would remove from
the
> ROM of the HP, it would be the equation library. It's use is limited and
there
> are many other things that would be better in it's place.
>
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