Returning to the HP fold

[MarkHaysHarris777]

(04-30-2015 06:58 AM)Steve Simpkin Wrote:  

(04-30-2015 06:29 AM)MarkHaysHarris777 Wrote:  I am wondering if one of you would provide your take on what it means to have keystrokes 'fully merged' and why that matters for programming memory usage. I'm assuming this is in reference to keystroke programming 'only' as compared with tokenized calculator languages like TI basic. Its just that I thought I understood what 'fully merged' meant, and I'm not sure now...

Thanks

"Unlike previous programmables, the HP-25 had fully merged key steps... (All multi-keystroke entries like f COS and STO * 2 took a single step.)"

So, just to make sure; the reason we have multi-key functions is because we don't physically have enough keys... but, steps in a program list is a horse of another color because we have plenty of bits to handle all the keycodes... so, 'fully merged' means that multiple keystrokes are not stored as multiple keystrokes, in keystroke programming, because they are 'merged' into the single function step that the multi-keystroke represents--- right? ... hate to be dumb about this.

marcus