HP Prime - worthy successor to HP-71B ?

[StephenG1CMZ]

(02-04-2024 11:01 PM)Valentin Albillo Wrote:  

(02-04-2024 06:58 PM)Peet Wrote:  The Prime's rudimentary RPN even makes him a more "real" HP than the 71b.

Oh, really ? Are you sure ? Who'd have thought ...

Quote:The prime is decades ahead of the 71b in almost all respects [...]

Sure. Documentation would be a case in point, right ?

Where's the buggy toy aka Prime equivalent of the 568-page (small font) HP-71B Software Internal Design Specification Volume I, which among other things includes the whole assembly-language system listed and fully commented line by line ? And there's also Vol. II, etc.

I could go on and on but sorry, it would be wasting my time, I can't take you seriously when you dare to belittlingly compare a buggy toy vs. a professional, reliable, seasoned real-world device as the HP-71B.

V.

Impressive documentation.
From a very quick look at it, I'm puzzled by several references to mainframe - which would normally have referred to large computers, whereas the HP-71 is a calculator.
Does mainframe have a special meaning in the context of the HP-71?