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From: jurjen@cwi.nl (Jurjen NE Bos)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: First look: TI-81
Keywords: TI-81
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Date: 6 Sep 90 09:54:28 GMT
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conte@crest.crhc.uiuc.edu (Tom Conte) writes:

[ Information about TI81 deleted ]
] The memory seems flat (no directories), but values and equations
] can be named.  Programs occupy a different `space' from variables.
] Programming is imperitive in nature, much more an outgrowth of the
] earlier `keystroke programming' style than RPL is.  Control flow
] is via a GoTo to a line number, with a compliment of traditional
] conditional tests.

] Overall, the machine was easier to use than a 28S (dag nammit). Of
] course TI is famous for taking ideas from HP, improving on them a
] touch, and packaging them at a lower price.  This feels like an
] improved 28S, targeted to catch that market, not something that
] compares to the 48SX.  No equation writer on the 81.  No polar
] plots.  No directories, no libraries, etc.

Sounds like an improved 28C to me, not S.

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