wp34s: the strict rpn sorta bugs me

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(12-20-2013 05:43 PM)Howard Owen Wrote:  That suggests to me that there is room for an enthusiast's RPL calculator along the lines of the WP-34s.

Leaving aside the problems of obtaining a suitable hardware platform and, more importantly, volunteer expertise and commitment, I see one other difficulty. The corpse of RPL is not only still warm, it is still breathing in the form of the HP-50g. Perhaps it's too early to embark on such a project.

I'm wondering how open HP would be to open sourcing the 50g firmware, actually (even though it *IS* going to be a mess of old Saturn-era code, third-party code, and ARM code), once it's discontinued. (It might be a bit too optimistic to ask that while it's still available, really.)