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HP50g spins circles around the TI-89
04-30-2015, 12:30 PM
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RE: HP50g spins circles around the TI-89
(04-30-2015 05:59 AM)MarkHaysHarris777 Wrote:  Rather than discontinue the 50g, why not reintroduce it as the 50gc and put a really nice color touch screen on it (but keep the 50g intact)?

They couldn't keep it intact, because the 50g architecture was maxed out. The old Saturn couldn't address any more RAM or ROM, or handle complex color graphics, even in its emulated form.
The entire core had to be rewritten from scratch, and once you decide to write a new core from scratch, it could evolve in any direction... and it took the direction the business people wanted (of course), otherwise it wouldn't have ever been done.

I believe RPL and its user interface is no longer commercially viable, therefore only an open source project can keep it alive, so that's what I'm working on.
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RE: HP50g spins circles around the TI-89 - Claudio L. - 04-30-2015 12:30 PM



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