Xref: utzoo comp.unix.misc:445 comp.unix.questions:26565 Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!att!emory!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!bcm!lib!thesis1.hsch.utexas.edu From: jmaynard@thesis1.hsch.utexas.edu (Jay Maynard) Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: Seeking SideKick-/spreadsheet-type functionality for AT&T 3B2 Message-ID: <4254@lib.tmc.edu> Date: 30 Oct 90 03:55:46 GMT References: <1990Oct28.202943.6118@zip.eecs.umich.edu> Sender: usenet@lib.tmc.edu Followup-To: comp.unix.misc Distribution: na Organization: University of Texas Medical School at Houston Lines: 16 Nntp-Posting-Host: thesis1.hsch.utexas.edu In article peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) writes: >I never did understand this fascination with "calculator emulators". It makes >no sense to draw a dinky little keypad on the screen when you have a perfectly >good keyboard right in front of you. I mean, calculators are becoming closer >and closer to handling standard computer expression syntax anyway... because >it's friendlier. Why step backwards to a more hostile environment when you >have "bc" shipped with UNIX? bc is much less user-friendly than, say, an HP-16C...or the rpn program that emulates it (albeit incompletely) for Unix. I have to wrestle bc to get an answer out of it, but I can get answers out of a 16C without having to think about it...kinda like WordStar. -- Jay Maynard, EMT-P, K5ZC, PP-ASEL | Never ascribe to malice that which can jmaynard@thesis1.hsch.utexas.edu | adequately be explained by stupidity. "With design like this, who needs bugs?" - Boyd Roberts