Re: The Ipaq PocketPC - the last and ultimate HP calculator ? Message #7 Posted by Vincent Weber on 31 Aug 2004, 3:42 a.m., in response to message #6 by Christoph Giesselink
Hi Christoph,
I fully agree with you about the pleasure of developping emulators - I have been trying this a long time agon with my Amiga... :-)
I was just saying that I am more interested in the major calculators that HP did than the minor ones, which are only nice to have. Especially, if a calculator is totally superseeded by another one, I am not so interested in it. When I say "superseeded", I do -not- mean more powerful, but the fact there is absolutely nothing to be missed (except for a cheaper price) in the superseeded calculator: otherwise we could say that the HP48 is the most powerful ever done, hence we don't need anything else ! But the HP48 is bulky, and complicated to use for small programs (no numerical registers, for instance). Therefore the HP-48 does not superseed the HP-42S or the HP-15C, for instance. Not even the HP-28S, which comes in a smaller (and, to my taste, neater) package.
But the HP-15C definitely superseeds the HP-11C: same size and weight, perfect backward compatibility, but more features; similarly, the HP-28S superseeds the HP-28C, the 41CX superseeds the 41C/CV, the 17BII superseeds the 17B, the 19BII superspeeds both the 18C and 19BII etc. And, I think, the 42S superseeds the 20/21/22 and even 32 (although they may have some small features that the 42S does not have).
In that definition, the 32SII is not superseeded by the 42S, given the excellent fraction mode and the so-so equation mode (not as good as the one on 17BII/27S, though).
Nonetheless I am always interested to look at new emulators, and if you ever release Emu10, I will be still interested :)
Btw - why is it that in Emu42 the 'Class 32' statement in the KML file gives 32K RAM to the 42S, but not to the 17BII ? And why is it that the pocketpc alpha keyboard works for the 42S but not for the 17BII ?
Thanks for your hard work and cheers,
Vincent
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