My first newbie WP 34S question

[walter b]

(01-09-2014 01:28 AM)Michael de Estrada Wrote:  Labels in the HP 42S can be up to 7 characters long, so I'm puzzled by this apparent restriction to only 3 characters. Hopefully I'm just missing something here.

The WP 34S can do a lot more than the HP-42S in some areas. It falls short in other ones. Major shortcomings are caused by:

1. the ... suboptimal display (did I tell you that already?) and
2. the limited RAM space.
   

IIRC, limited RAM made HP-42 data types impossible, causing the alpha and matrix gymnastics as implemented in the WP 34S. Variables and (long global) labels fall in the same pit.

d:-/