Scientific Specific Units

[Claudio L.]

(12-05-2015 07:07 PM)luisphysics Wrote:  I notice a lot of people love the 50g. If I had to guess the reason HP didn't just upgrade the 50g hardware and roll over the software, was likely because the firmware/software/hardware are actually one fused unit.

The 50g isn't a fused software/hardware unit. It is nothing but an emulator running an even older platform. Now the emulated platform (Saturn) was very tightly integrated and "maxed-out".

Now regarding the specific unit you want... did know that the 50g has 'c' (speed of light) defined as a unit? So as long as your speed of light is defined as 1_c (as opposed to in m/s), any operation where you use the speed of light will not be numerically replaced, and your results will come out in MeV/c^2 directly.
So yes, the old maxed-out platform was very flexible and worked very well for physics and engineering. No wonder so many people still love it (me included). If you see it as a tool, then a fancy color screen doesn't beat "getting the job done".