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From: slsw2@cc.usu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: HP-38E
Message-ID: <1990Nov7.111701.41990@cc.usu.edu>
Date: 7 Nov 90 17:17:01 GMT
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In article <543@voodoo.UUCP>, tomm@voodoo.voodoo.uucp (Tom Mackey) writes:
> I just purchased an HP-38E financial calculator (I've just gotta
> stop looking in the "Little Nickel"...  the SAF getting way too
> low these days ;^) and have a few questions:
> 
> ...
>
>     Hitting G-MEM shows p-08 r-20 (8 program steps and 20
>     registers).  Does this imply that they can be re-allocated
>     like the HP-41 series?  If so, how?  Seems like
>     programability implies a bit more useful address space.

On the 15, 16, 11, etc. the allocation of memory between program and register
spaces is automatic; when the program gets big enough to require another 
register, one is sucked up from register space and tacked onto program space.
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