Re: HP & RPN Message #2 Posted by Raymond Hellstern (Germany) on 9 Nov 2002, 12:02 p.m., in response to message #1 by John Garza (3665)
It seems that engineers had much more influence on design matters back then.
One of the sentences in their owner's manuals was
"Made for engineers by engineers"
(maybe the 2nd and 4th word exchanged)
It seems that engineers wanted to have highly efficient, high quality tools. So some kind of RPN was obligate,
and it was even cheaper to produce an RPN machine,
because they needed less storage registers,
and RAM was very expensive those days.
Nowadays it's vice versa: The 'marketeers' hold the strings,
and we all see the result, that new HP calculators are kinda crap (IMHO).
Raymond
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