Re: HP50G Equation Writer - What it can & cannot display? Message #7 Posted by Gilles Carpentier on 22 Sept 2012, 5:20 a.m., in response to message #6 by mr-scorpio
Hi
there was no real CAS on the 48 series, nor infinite integer, symbolic matrix, symboliv vectors and a lot of other things ...
All of this came with the 49G wich was of very interesting calc but with an awfull keyboard and screen cover (the fisrt one at least)
In my opinion the lack of PI function is just a curious thing in the near 900 commands of the 50G and is not significiant. It's easy to write one, and i don't search but i am pretty sure you could find a sysRPL program or library to do this
The real problem is that there is no more evolution of the 50G OS since many year and (just my opinion) that there will be no evolution in the future.
It's a pity because it is such a beautiful, powerfull, pratical and efficient operating system in very good hardware (keyboard, high contrast screen, robust case ...)
what do you call 'template' on the NSPire?
For an idea of the "look and feel" of 50G in real usage, here is a video example :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vj9K_bXKEY4
(go to 2mn40 to see the HP50 part)
or this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=taY1xp3npsw&feature=relmfu
(goto 5mn 30)
Edited: 22 Sept 2012, 6:33 a.m. after one or more responses were posted
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