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RE: Wicke's RPL paper in Journal of Applied Forth Research? - jebem - 09-04-2014 06:02 PM
A little bit off topic perhaps, but the Aug-1987 HP Journal covers the HP-28C/S and also explains why RPL was chosen:
The HP-28C firmware was developed in a year by a small
team using the RPL operating system and language (see the
article on page 21). The use of a highly structured language
was necessary for the implementation of symbolic mathe
matics, but also yielded a significant increase in productiv
ity compared with previous products, which were coded
entirely in assembly language.
RE: Wicke's RPL paper in Journal of Applied Forth Research? - aurelio - 09-04-2014 06:33 PM
(09-04-2014 06:02 PM)jebem Wrote: A little bit off topic perhaps, but the Aug-1987 HP Journal covers the HP-28C/S and also explains why RPL was chosen:
The HP-28C firmware was developed in a year by a small
team using the RPL operating system and language (see the
article on page 21). The use of a highly structured language
was necessary for the implementation of symbolic mathe
matics, but also yielded a significant increase in productiv
ity compared with previous products, which were coded
entirely in assembly language.
how to fall in love with a calculator, Jose
RE: Wicke's RPL paper in Journal of Applied Forth Research? - Bruno - 09-04-2014 07:34 PM
(09-04-2014 02:19 PM)Thomas Radtke Wrote: Uploaded it here ...
https://www.dropbox.com/s/i7vn5bbgwm246tz/Wickes.pdf?dl=0
... but won't keep it there forever.
Wonderfull ! Many thanks
I'm so happy to find every time new papers about RPL.
RE: Wicke's RPL paper in Journal of Applied Forth Research? - jebem - 09-04-2014 08:17 PM
(09-04-2014 06:33 PM)aurelio Wrote:(09-04-2014 06:02 PM)jebem Wrote: A little bit off topic perhaps, but the Aug-1987 HP Journal covers the HP-28C/S and also explains why RPL was chosen:
The HP-28C firmware was developed in a year by a small
team using the RPL operating system and language (see the
article on page 21). The use of a highly structured language
was necessary for the implementation of symbolic mathe
matics, but also yielded a significant increase in productiv
ity compared with previous products, which were coded
entirely in assembly language.
how to fall in love with a calculator, Jose
Indeed...
RE: Wicke's RPL paper in Journal of Applied Forth Research? - Claudio L. - 09-11-2014 04:16 PM
(09-04-2014 02:19 PM)Thomas Radtke Wrote: Uploaded it here ...
https://www.dropbox.com/s/i7vn5bbgwm246tz/Wickes.pdf?dl=0
... but won't keep it there forever.
Very good paper, I think it deserves a more permanent link, so I put it here:
http://hpgcc3.org/images/Documents/Wickes.pdf
It's not linked from anywhere else but this forum.
Claudio