STO key Message #9 Posted by bill platt on 5 June 2007, 8:38 p.m., in response to message #8 by Sam Levy
I agree with the STO key as a primary. It is much more important than x^2 for instance, I think. Of course RCL is even more important in my opinion.
Decisions on keys are never easy. Look at the transition from 11c to 32sii:
GTO moved to shifted,
clearing x, regs or sigma moved to shift and a menu so one extra step,
10^x went to shifted, but an improvement (to me) was moving LN to primary,
SST was moved to shifted,
One reason for these changes was that the 32sii actually had two fewer keys--37 instead of 39! It also has more functions, but the menues pretty much make up for that--and the change in HYP handling--only one HYP key rather than a Hyp^-1 key as the 11c had. Perhaps this was part of the original Pioneer design concept of a simplified clean keyboard with menus (32s, 42s, 22s? 17b).
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