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From: rdippold@lajolla.qualcomm.com (Ron Dippold)
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Subject: Re: HP48sx Simulator for Dos?
Keywords: HP48sx
Message-ID: <1991Apr20.012113.27024@qualcomm.com>
Date: 20 Apr 91 01:21:13 GMT
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In article <1991Apr17.032238.4258@netcom.COM> feustel@netcom.COM (David Feustel) writes:
>Someone ponted out that I was asking for a Saturn Chipset simulator.
>What I'm actually looking for is 48sx functionality on a pc, only with
>a full screen and a lot more speed, memory and disk space.

Good luck... the most valuable part of the HP48sx are the ROMS.  It's the code
in there that lets them do all the algebraic manipulation, solving, menuing,
etc. that makes it so valuable;  you could have the same screen, memory,
keyboard and processor and still have a run-of-the-mill calculator if it
weren't for those programs.

What I'm meandering around to getting at is that it would be illegal to copy
the ROMS so that you could run them on your PC, and that I can't imagine
anyone doing a clean-room version of the HP48sx roms any time in the near
future.