Re: WP34s: Complex AGM (Bug...) Message #12 Posted by Luiz C. Vieira (Brazil) on 23 Apr 2012, 5:25 a.m., in response to message #10 by Paul Dale
Hi.
I'm almost sure you may have not noticed, but this is my very first post about the WP34S.
I do not have an WP34S yet, but it seems to me that we have finally seen the actual backstage of a calculator development. I wonder the HP35 development team and ahead.
It seems to me, as a matter of pure speculation, that at some point the development of computing devices reaches a 'available technology' versus 'demanded resources' balance that never happens more than once. I see this balance being reached when calculators arose, then became programmable, then expandable, then pocket-size, then graphical and then symbolical. After the HP28 I do not recall seeing another major resource that demanded - or explored - a different technology. Neither in computers I recall seeing major enhancements, only faster and memory-filled machines running better algorithms.
What I feel is that technology has not been challenged by new demanded resources for about two decades. And great minds, like those involved with the WP34S, are actually being tasked in a kind of a different way: finding ways to make current, complex, 'full of possibilities' hardware to run algorithms that offer resources available more than two decades ago combined with some now-a-days flavor.
Congratulations, Pauli and the other guys at the WP34S development team. It's outstanding what you have been doing.
What a task!
Am I seeing beyond? Or just in the need of a shrink? Doc Meyers, any professional opinion?
Cheers.
Luiz (Brazil)
Edited: 23 Apr 2012, 5:28 a.m.
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