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Hi,

Perhaps this subject is like beating a dead horse and I might have missed it here somewhere. Has anyone given consideration to developing a (undoubtedly large) PPL program for the Prime which turns it into a touchscreen-enabled programmable RPN calculator? I know that Walter Bonin considers this platform to be "battleship" large, but I think it would be quite interesting to see a project which starts out as a simpler RPN calculator and gradually evolves into a WP-34S-class application. I suppose if I had an iOS device running the WP34S app, it wouldn't matter as much, but physical hard keys still seem superior to me for the non-menu-related stuff. Just a thought.

Thanks,
Jake

I think someone was actually working on a program that was supposed to mimmick the RPL system/stack from the HP48 series. I am having a hard time finding it now but they were attempting to do it via user keys

(03-29-2016 06:20 PM)Jake Schwartz Wrote: [ -> ]Hi,

Perhaps this subject is like beating a dead horse and I might have missed it here somewhere. Has anyone given consideration to developing a (undoubtedly large) PPL program for the Prime which turns it into a touchscreen-enabled programmable RPN calculator? I know that Walter Bonin considers this platform to be "battleship" large, but I think it would be quite interesting to see a project which starts out as a simpler RPN calculator and gradually evolves into a WP-34S-class application. I suppose if I had an iOS device running the WP34S app, it wouldn't matter as much, but physical hard keys still seem superior to me for the non-menu-related stuff. Just a thought.

Thanks,
Jake

It's been done here, by Eddie Shore :

http://www.hpmuseum.org/forum/thread-3301.html
http://www.hpmuseum.org/forum/thread-2418.html

/Steve