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From: wscott@ecn.purdue.edu (Wayne H Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: First look: TI-81
Keywords: TI-81
Message-ID: <1990Sep6.160231.25692@ecn.purdue.edu>
Date: 6 Sep 90 16:02:31 GMT
References: <1990Sep5.195144.26901@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <2073@charon.cwi.nl>
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network
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In article <2073@charon.cwi.nl> jurjen@cwi.nl (Jurjen NE Bos) writes:
>conte@crest.crhc.uiuc.edu (Tom Conte) writes:
>
>[ Information about TI81 deleted ]
>
>] 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.
>

I don't think so.  I feel on the the main advantages of the 28 machines,
once you get past the fancy features, is the RPN programming language.

The 28s have a programming language not a fancy scripting language.  It
would not be where it is now if a program was just a sequence on key strokes
with gotos.


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